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characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …
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piracy on the cultural industry. The diversity of data collected and methodologies used by empirical studies make it … piracy which may be due, for example, to the use of Internet access as a proxy for piracy. On the other hand, the problem of … an underestimation of the impact of piracy. As a result, the major finding of empirical works about piracy could be the …
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characterized by uncertainty about quality (experience good) and heterogeneous piracy costs. Users can purchase or get unauthorized …/illegal copies (digital piracy) of the software during two periods (or not adopt at all). Between these two periods, users can … monitoring of piracy. We show that the software publisher can profit from accommodation a certain level of piracy of the product …
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We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990 … with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables based on … other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the overall …
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In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the … positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with the overall crime rate. Then, we use instrumental variables … unaffected all other types of crime. Since robberies represent a very minor fraction of all criminal offenses, the effect on the …
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We wish to thank Andrea Bassanini, Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa, Tommy Murphy, Tommaso Nannicini and seminar participants at University Bocconi for useful comments and discussions. Charlotte Coutand and Clement Malgouyres provided excellent research assistance. We also thank Pierre-Emmanuel Couralet...
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abilities. Typically, there is more crime in the low ability group and increasing punishment reduces crime, but the opposite may …
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the fight against violent crime. The study uses a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) built upon the economy of … Minas Gerais, a Brazilian state. Main results suggest a comparable reducing effect of both type of expenditures on crime …
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This paper adds to the literature on the economic determinants of crime by examining the impact of macro …-economic instability had a significant impact on crime, both homicide and robbery. However, homicide and robbery do not react to …
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