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Non-Linearities, Cyber Attacks and Cryptocurrencies
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019
importance of gaining a deeper understanding of this form of crime and of the tools used by cybercriminals in order to prevent …
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Cyber Attacks, Spillovers and Contagion in the Cryptocurrency Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
This paper examines mean and volatility spillovers between three major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum) and the role played by cyber attacks. Specifically, trivariate GARCH-BEKK models are estimated which include suitably defined dummies corresponding to different types, targets...
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Cybersecurity Risk
Florackis, Chris; Louca, Christodoulos; Michaely, Roni; … - 2021
We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays intuitive relations with quantitative measures of...
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Cybercrime on the Ethereum Blockchain
Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2023
We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims’ risk-taking and returns. Our difference-in-differences analysis of a sample of victims and matched non-victims suggests that victims increase their long-term total risk-taking and earn...
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It is a Theft But Not a Crime
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2021
Why do people who normally refrain from committing illegalities become digital pirates? In this paper we use a theoretical model of digital piracy combined with a game-theoretic mechanism of social norm formation to argue that no social stigma is attached to digital piracy because the latter has...
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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?
Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007
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 …
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Do surveillance cameras affect unruly behavior?: a close look at grandstands
Priks, Mikael - 2008
This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...
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Organized crime and foreign direct investment: the Italian case
Daniele, Vittorio; Marani, Ugo - 2008
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 …
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The engine immobilizer: A non-starter for car thieves
Ours, Jan C. van; Vollaard, Ben - 2013
We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strengthening victim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291536
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Fighting Mobile Crime
Crinò, Rosario - 2019
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 …
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