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Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2015
Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency … develop an agency model of police behavior that emphasizes intrinsic motivation and self-selection. Drawing on experimental … hire punitive police agents, while providing suspects with strong criminal procedure protections, thereby empowering other …
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Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
Friebel, Guido - 2017
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved …
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779694
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Private Enforcement, Corruption, and Antitrust Design
Grajzl, Peter - 2015
Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009886
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Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements
Harstad, Bård - 2015
We analyze a repeated game in which countries are polluting as well as investing in technologies. While folk theorems point out that the first best can be sustained as a subgame-perfect equilibrium when the players are sufficiently patient, we derive the second best equilibrium when they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011799
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Modelling Economic Impacts of Alternative International Climate Policy Architectures : A Quantitative and Comparative Assessment of Architectures for Agreement
Bosetti, Valentina - 2013
This paper provides a quantitative comparison of the main architectures for an agreement on climate policy. Possible successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness; distributional implications; and their political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753436
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Optimal Regulation of Auditing
Pagano, Marco; Immordino, Giovanni - 2021
We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...
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Optimal Law Enforcement with Sophisticated and Naive Offenders
Buechel, Berno - 2018
Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913196
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The Interaction of Legal and Social Norm Enforcement
Kube, Sebastian - 2010
Although legal sanctions are often non-deterrent, we frequently observe compliance with ‘mild laws'. A possible explanation is that the incentives to comply are shaped not only by legal, but also by social sanctions. This paper employs a novel experimental approach to study the link between...
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2021
of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation …
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