reforms, fortifying governance frameworks, reducing crime, and mitigating the impact of natural disasters will help sustain …

This paper presents a structural model of crime and output. Individuals make an occupational choice between criminal … the level of crime and economic activity. I calibrate the model to the Northern Triangle countries and conduct several … policy experiments. I find that for a country like Honduras crime reduces GDP by about 3 percent through its negative effect …

This paper studies the transmission of crime shocks to the economy in a sample of 32 Mexican states over the period … associated with the sign and magnitude of the responses of economic variables to crime shocks …

argued that public welfare programs can be viewed as a crime-preventing or disruption-preventing devices because they tend to … increase the opportunity cost of engaging in crime or disruptive activities. It is shown that, in the presence of a leisure …

This paper discusses the evolution of the household debt in Australia and finds that while higher-income and higher … depending on the level of household debt. The results corroborate other work that households' response to monetary policy shocks …

as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage …

different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to …