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Percy, Sarah; Shortland, Anja - 2011

organized crime groups will be difficult to control, especially if it becomes embedded in state structures. Finally, we argue …

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Gov-arrrgh-nance: Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers

De Groot, Olaf J.; Shortland, Anja - 2010

a unique insight into crime in badly governed countries which were systematically excluded from previous analyses. We …

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Crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece: a panel data approach

Saridakis, George; Spengler, Hannes - 2009

This study empirically examines the relationship between crime, deterrence and unemployment in Greece. A regional … deterred by higher clear-up rates. Also for property crime rates, the results indicate that unemployment increases crime. For …

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Comparing the determinants of concern about terrorism and crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting …. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well … global terrorism and crime, and show that worries about terrorism are driven by similar determinants as those about crime …

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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war-affected developing country. The study uses household survey data from Mozambique and controls for the endogeneity of activity choices with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices...

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"Robin Hook": The developmental effects of Somali piracy

Shortland, Anja - 2011

Naval counter-piracy measures off Somalia have failed to change the incentives for pirates, raising calls for land-based approaches that may involve replacing piracy as a source of income. This paper evaluates the effects of piracy on the Somali economy to establish which (domestic) groups...

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The effect of personalized feedback on small enterprises' finances in Uganda

Grohmann, Antonia; Menkhoff, Lukas; Seitz, Helke - 2019

This RCT examines the effect of a new style finance training during which participants are given personalized feedback on their financial business outcomes in addition to a "rules-of-thumb" training approach. We compare this to the effects of a "rules-of-thumb" training by itself and to a...

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Social relationships and trust

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2010

While social relationships play an important role for individuals to cope with missing market institutions, they also limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social distances when information asymmetries are present....

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Modelling Turkish Migration to Germany

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2006

This study develops a time series model of Turkish migration to Germany for the period 1963-2004 using the cointegration technique. A single cointegrating relation between the migration flow variable and the relative income ratio between Germany and Turkey, the unemployment rates in Germany and...

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