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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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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence
Muehlenbachs, Lucija - 2014
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are sent to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, we find that adding an inspector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061046
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117409
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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence : Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
Feess, Eberhard - 2015
of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential violators' and punishers' decisions when … hypotheses derived from the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014016
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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
DeAngelo, Gregory - 2018
Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has been considerable research on the type of sanctions imposed, but this research almost always...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918262
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021
in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important … mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this paper we explore the boundary conditions for altruistic punishment to … maintain cooperation by systematically varying the cost and impact of punishment, using a subject pool which extends beyond the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318468
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997433
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Anger Management : Aggression and Punishment in the Provision of Public Goods
Gee, Laura - 2017
welfare is reduced is that punishment can express anger about free-riding. If this is the case, then tools that regulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964994
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Cherry-Picking in Labor Market with Imperfect Information
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
We study a competitive labor market with imperfect information. In our basic model, the labor market consists of heterogeneous workers and ex ante identical firms who have only imperfect private information about workers' productivities. Firms compete by posting wages in order to cherry-pick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157747
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Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2015
theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021950