The reasons for the deficient performance of Ionian Islands tourism in terms of in coming revenues expressed in USD and … were analyzed with the use of the Decision Tree tool. The issue of competitiveness of the tourism product was assessed. The … development of alternative forms of tourism is proposed as a means of improving competitiveness and restoring sustainability in …

Using a Two-Stage Least Squares procedure, we estimate the relationship between ethnic fragmentation and police … and accounting for simultaneity bias, ethnic fragmentation is positively related to police spending. Our paper contributes … to the understanding of the stylized fact that public spending on police increased over a period in which the incidence …

This paper aims to measure the role of police modernization scheme in its performance in crime repression. We use … ‘single stage’. We find that the police modernization scheme is helping the state police departments in enhancing their … performance, i.e., the police departments which have more modern communication equipments and which are spending more money on the …

significance of police discrimination against social groups. This paper presents and applies a nonparametric test that is robust to … drivers. More particularly, there is evidence of police bias against African American male and Latino drivers by all officers … and no evidence of police bias against white male drivers by any group of officers. …

This paper provides further evidence on the impact of crime on the job market using the time series data over the … period 1980-2007 for Argentina. We also address methodological flaws by earlier crime studies by employing autoregressive … statistically positive effect on the crime rate, depending on the model used. …

This paper empirically examines the causality between crime rates and economic growth using state level data in India … crime and economic growth. Higher crimes may reduce level of per capita income and its growth rate. Controlling intentional …

This paper empirically investigates the connection between corruption and crime. Such linkage has been often … underestimated because corruption has been often analyzed as a white-collar crime. In fact it is not characterized by violence …. Recently a theoretical connection has been suggested to highlight that corruption and crime can be considered strategic …