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Social Networks and Crime Decisions: The Role of Social Structure in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

We develop a model in which delinquents compete with each other in criminal activities but may benefit from being friends with other criminals by learning and acquiring proper know-how on the crime business. By taking the social network connecting agents as given, we study the subgame perfect...

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Who's Who in Crime Network. Wanted the Key Player

Ballester, Coralio; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

Criminals are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among criminals are modeled by means of a graph where criminals compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbours. Each criminal decides in a non-cooperative way how much crime effort he will exert. We...

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Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment

Kugler, Maurice; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and … corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … punishment induce organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads too higher rather than lower crime. …

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Trust, Leniency and Deterrence

Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloe; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

several other forms of crimes that share cartels’ strategic features, including corruption and financial fraud. …

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Swedish Lessons for Post-Socialist Countries

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Sweden experienced exeptionally fast economic growth during the century-long period 1870-1970. This illustrates that a decentralized market economy, highly open to international transactions, may be quite conductive to sustained productivity growth if the government fulfills its "classical"...

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Improving the Performance of the European Social Model - The Welfare State over the Life Cycle

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The achievements of social-welfare arrangements in Western Europe are well known: considerable income security, relatively little poverty and, in some countries, ample supply of social services. But there are also well-known weaknesses and hence considerable scope for improvement. Three types of...

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Recent developments in society have generated misalignment between the welfare state and socio-economic conditions and preferences. This paper emphasis developments in the labor market and the structure, stability and preferences of the family, as well as macroeconomic changes. The latter...

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Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

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Economic-Social Interaction in China

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country’s change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...

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A Gubernatorial Helping Hand? How Governors Affect Presidential Elections

Erikson, Robert S.; Snyder Jr. , James M.; Folke, Olle - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

It is commonly argued in the media that a presidential candidate will be helped in a state by having a governor of the same party in office. However, there is little research to support this claim. To address this question we use a regression discontinuity design. The basic idea behind this is...

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