regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases … conditions can play in the reduction of crime in an emerging economy context. …

The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …