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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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"Robin Hook": The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy

Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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Eine panelökonometrische Überprüfung der ökonomischen Theorie der Kriminalität mit deutschen Bundesländerdaten

Spengler, Hannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

According to the economic theory of crime, a rise in expected punishment (the product of probability and severity of … punishment) results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward hypotheses turns … out to be a demanding task for empirical examination because "crime" is composed of many different offence categories and …

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The Business of Piracy in Somalia

Percy, Sarah; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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

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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Survey (Part I)

Schneider, Friedrich; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...

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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Survey (Part II)

Schneider, Friedrich; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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Combating "Maritime Terrorism" off the Coast of Somalia

Shortland, Anja; Vothknecht, Marc - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the international naval mission in the Gulf of Aden from 2008-2010, both in terms of its counter-piracy and its counter-terrorism objectives. We draw on arguments developed in the literature of law and economics, detailed statistical analyses and a large...

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Gov-arrrgh-nance: Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers

Groot, Olaf J. de; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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

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Is Government Ownership of Banks Really Harmful to Growth?

Andrianova, Svetlana; Demetriades, Panicos; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

We put forward a modern version of the 'developmental' view of government-owned banks which shows that the combination of information asymmetries and weak institutions creates scope for such banks to play a growth-promoting role. We present new cross-country evidence consistent with our...

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