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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The reason is that a high penalty keeps relatively 'gutless' individuals from … relatively 'tough' individuals to commit moderately violent acts and so makes moderate violence more attractive for otherwise …

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Tracing the Base: A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point Pricing

Bos, Iwan; Schinkel, Maarten Pieter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

Basing-point pricing is known to have been abused by geographically dispersed firms in order to eliminate competition on transportation costs. This paper develops a topographic test for collusive basing-point pricing. The method uses transaction data (prices, quantities) and customer project...

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The Power of a Bad Example - A Field Experiment in Household Garbage Disposal

Dur, Robert; Vollaard, Ben - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...

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Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates

Sridharan, Sanjeev; Vujic, Suncica; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislationon reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In …

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The Pro-collusive Effect of Increasing the Repose Period for Price Fixing Agreements

Hinloopen, Jeroen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This discussion paper resulted in the publication The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007), 7(1), 1135. Intuitively, extending the period of repose for price fixing agreements enhances the effectiveness of competition policy enforcement. This paper proofs this intuition wrong. As...

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The Influence of Wages on Public Officials' Corruptibility: A Laboratory Investigation

Veldhuizen, Roel van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Previous studies have proposed a link between corruption and wages in the public sector. This paper investigates this link using a laboratory experiment. In the experiment, public officials have the opportunity to accept a bribe and can then decide between a neutral and a corrupt action. The...

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Crime, Employment and Social Welfare: an Individual-level Study on Disadvantaged Males

Mesters, Geert; Geest, Victor van der; Bijleveld, Catrien - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We test economic and sociological theories for the relationship between employment and crime, where social welfare is … heterogeneity. We find significant negative bi-directional structural effects between employment and property crime. Robustness … highlight the importance of economic incentives for explaining the relationship between employment and crime for disadvantaged …

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Nearly Unbiased Estimation in Dynamic Panel Data Models with Exogenous Variables

Carree, Martin A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper introduces a new estimator for the fixed effects dynamic panel data model withexogenous variables. This estimator does not share some of the drawbacks of recently developed IVand GMM estimators and has a good performance even in small samples. The nearly unbiased estimatoris derived...

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The Importance of Accounting for Time Trends when Estimating the Euro Effect on Trade

Bun, Maurice J.G.; Klaassen, Franc J.G.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

To study the effect of the euro on international goods trade one typically estimates a panel model for the level of trade. Trade levels increase over time, and we show that this is not fully explained by the included regressors. Because the euro is only present at the end of the sample, this may...

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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move toa nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. Forexample, the individual may enter a prolonged depression. We...

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