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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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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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Petty Corruption and Citizen Reports

Angelucci, Charles - 2017

To enforce regulations, governments often delegate power to public officials. However, officials may have incentives to abuse their discretionary power and engage in bribery or extortion. Efforts to monitor and curb such abuses have inspired interest in using new communication technologies to...

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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...

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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth

Irmen, Andreas - 2011

We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert A. J. - 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...

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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...

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Payment Choice in International Trade : Theory and Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data

Höfele, Andreas - 2013

costs and contract enforcement in the source country. We extend the theory and test two additional predictions. First, we …

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Employment Protection : The Case of Limited Enforceability

Baumann, Florian - 2021

This paper shows that the effects of employment protection critically depend on its enforcement. For this purpose, we capture evasion of employment protection via market exit in a setting of monopolistic competition. We find that the number of firms entering the market depends on firing costs...

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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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