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Bad Boys : How Criminal Identity Salience Affects Rule Violation
Cohn, Alain - 2015
regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021703
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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement : Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - 2021
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315994
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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement: Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2011
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147742
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
Dur, Robert - 2006
double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in … attractive for some people who would otherwise commit more severe crime. If social status is sufficiently important in criminal … subcultures, zero-tolerance reduces crime across the board …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779694
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Culture and Cooperation
Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - 2021
cultural background relative to individual heterogeneity and group-level differences in cooperation. We find that culture has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316208
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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth
Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013
This paper scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. A metastudy of the historical demography literature shows that the EMP did not prevail throughout Europe, its three key components did not always coincide, and its more extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659185
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Marginal Deterrence at Work
Crinò, Rosario - 2017
penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945062
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Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty : Facts or Ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2021
In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316017
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Politicians : Be Killed or Survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - 2021
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316433
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On the Process of Scientific Policy Advice - With Special Reference to Economic Policy
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2015
We first show three major disagreements among today's leading economists: the minimum wage, the effects of large government debt and the politics of the European Central Bank. Using a prominent and highly relevant example, the possible deterrent effect of death penalty, we demonstrate how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030313