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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

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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens - 2011

We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...

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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

Farré, Lidia - 2009

This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158120

Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010

This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...

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