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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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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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Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector
Krueger, Alan B. - 2018
In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914332
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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover
Suedekum, Jens - 2021
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316871
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The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes : A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from 1987-1992, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068380