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Gov-arrrgh-nance : Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers

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

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

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Hunt, Jennifer - 2003 - This Draft - March 2003

assess to what extent lagged teen birth rates can explain why the United States had the highest developed country crime rates … in the 1980s, and why US rates subsequently fell so much. For this purpose, I use internationally comparable crime rates … measured from the 1989-2000 International Crime Victims Surveys. I find that an increase in the share of young people born to a …

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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany

Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008

diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …, imprisonment) and severity (length of prison sentence, amount of fine) of punishment are often small and insignificant. …

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I am innocent: hourly variations in air pollution and crime behavior

Sarmiento, Luis - 2020

-and-matching frictions between criminals and crime opportunities. The study examines the impact on the four largest cities in North America … crimes while decreasing burglaries and sexual offenses through a reduction of crime opportunities. …

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R&D and price elasticity of demand

Lucke, Dorothea (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The welfare state, thresholds, and economic growth

Fic, Tatiana (contributor); Ghate, Chetan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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An estimation and decomposition of the government investment multiplier

Clemens, Marius; Michelsen, Claus; Rieth, Malte - 2025

We construct a narrative instrument for government investment from official records in Germany. Using structural vector autoregressions, we document a significant crowding-in of private investment and an output multiplier of roughly 2. Then, we match a New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general...

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Financial repression in general equilibrium : the case of the United States, 1948-1974

Kliem, Martin; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2024

Financial repression lowers the return on government debt and contributes, all else equal, towards its liquidation. However, its full effect on the debt-to-GDP ratio hinges on how repression impacts the economy at large because it alters investment and saving decisions. We develop and estimate a...

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How many bucks in a bang : on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict

Groot, Olaf J. de; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...

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Structural vector autoregressions checking identifying long-run restrictions via heteroskedasticity

Lütkepohl, Helmut; Velinov, Anton - 2014

Long-run restrictions have been used extensively for identifying structural shocks in vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis. Such restrictions are typically just-identifying but can be checked by utilizing changes in volatility. This paper reviews and contrasts the volatility models that have...

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