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crime particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds …. Moreover, the estimates indicate that these crimes show a different persistency over time, reflecting different adjustment …
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crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … the tax burden; in addition, these crimes demonstrate different levels of persistence over time, reflecting different …
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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...
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The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring … economists, who investigate the (often two-way) intersection of crime with labor market factors, such as education, wages, and … effectively reduce crime. This comprehensive review underscores the transformative impact of economics on crime research and its …
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is unplanned, and the decision is taken under great emotional distress and time pressure, thus providing a test of …
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The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the … and under intense time pressure and emotional distress are deterred more by the certainty rather than the severity of …
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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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An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...
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can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any … frequency of violation at equilibrium. This result is misleading: payoffs are not independent and the crime game can not be … crime of tax evasion, where the dishonest taxpayers are rational agents, motivated by the comparison of payoffs, considering …
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Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...
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