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Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: an Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloé; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....

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Rules, Communication and Collusion: Narrative Evidence from the Sugar Institute Case

Genesove, David; Mullin, Wallace P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar-refining cartel show how communication helps firms collude, and so highlight the deficiencies in the current formal theory of collusion. The Sugar Institute did not fix prices or output. Prices were increased by homogenizing business practices to...

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Choosing the Stick or the Carrot? Endogenous Institutional Choice in Social Dilemma Situations

Haigner, Stefan; Kocher, Martin; Sutter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

endogenous choice, groups typically vote for the reward option, even though punishment is actually more effective in sustaining …

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Punitive Sanctions and the Transition Rate From Welfare to Work

den Berg, Gerard J van; van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In The Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search effort that are imposed by the welfare agency. If they do not, then a sanction in the form of a temporary benefit reduction can be imposed. This...

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The Big Carrot: High Stake Incentives Revisited

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper provides an empirical demonstration of high stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. It shows that, when both positive (carrot) and negative (stick) incentives are available, the former are more effective than the latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven...

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Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases...

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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …

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Does Regulation of Built-In Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ours, Jan C van; Vollaard, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social …

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Estimating the Impact of Gubernatorial Partisanship on Policy Settings and Economic Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

and inequality, crime rates, suicide rates, and test scores. These results are robust to the use of regression …

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Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

Kleck, Gary; Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

correlation reflect a causal relationship? This study seeks to answer the question of whether more guns cause more crime, and … three main sources of endogeneity bias - reverse causality (higher crime rates lead people to acquire guns for self … positive effect on homicide rates: ceteris paribus, more guns do not mean more crime. …

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