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Criminal Discount Factors and Deterrence

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2016

The trade-off between the immediate returns from committing a crime and the future costs of punishment depends on an offender's time discounting. We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sentence length generated by a large collective pardon in Italy and provide non-parametric evidence on the...

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Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood

Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023

Using an identification strategy based on random assignment of refugees to different municipalities in Denmark between 1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that...

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What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us About Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?

Bjerk, David - 2018

We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or implicit racial biases in the DNA exoneration process (including no bias), our results suggest the...

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The Impact of Risk Perception and Risk Attitudes on Corrupt Behavior : Evidence from a Petty Corruption Experiment

Mir Djawadi, Behnud - 2013

We investigate one possible explanation for observed rates of corrupt behavior namely that individual decision makers who frequently engage in illegal actions may underestimate the overall probability of being caught. This might in particular be true for petty corruption where small amounts of...

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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - 2011

This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. We develop a model of criminal subcultures in which people gain social status among their peers...

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Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction

Entorf, Horst - 2011

This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence...

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Delinquent Networks

Ballester, Coralio - 2009

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...

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Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes : With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

Grass, Dieter; Behrens, Doris; Caulkins, Jonathan P.; … - 2008

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Economics and Computation : An Introduction to Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Fair Division

Rothe, Jörg (ed.) - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision … making from an economic and computational perspective. Part I introduces to algorithmic game theory, focusing on both … noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Part II introduces to computational social choice, focusing on both preference …

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Harmonisierung des europäischen Bilanzrechts : Problembestimmung und konzeptionelle Würdigung

Najderek, Anne - 2010

Problemstellung -- Reglungswille und Form der Harmonisierung im europäischen Bilanzrichtlinienrecht -- Regelungswille und Form der Standardisierung im europäischen Bilanzrecht nach der IAS-Verordnung -- Würdigung des true and fair view als Grundlage der Vergleichbarkeit im europäischen...

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