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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …

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Conceptualising informality : regulation and enforcement

Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A …) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment … of activity, and (D) regulation non-applicable to the activity. Rather than use the generic labels 'informal' and 'formal …

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Competing on the holodeck : the effect of virtual peers and heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments

Graff, Jan Frederik; Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2018

We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in a highly immersive environment. Implementing a tournament in VR, we are able to mitigate the...

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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police

Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015

Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....

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The welfare effects of law enforcement in the illegal money lending market

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Pavanini, Nicola; Walsh, … - 2022

We estimate a structural model of borrowing and lending in the illegal money lending market using a unique panel survey of 1,090 borrowers taking out 11,032 loans from loan sharks. We use the model to evaluate the welfare effects of alternative law enforcement strategies. We find that a large...

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The political cost of lockdown's enforcement

Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2021

We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens' propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the government's management of the crisis decreases with the amount of the penalties...

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Salience of law enforcement : a field experiment

Dur, Robert A. J.; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2018

We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in residential areas. At a random subset of 56 locations in a mid-sized city, law enforcement...

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Speed limit enforcement and road safety

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...

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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine propensity score matching with a discrete-time hazard...

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Rule of law, institutional quality and information

Bruno, Randolph (contributor) - 2008

The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion on institutional quality is explored using a model...

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