We use a laboratory experiment to test the impacts of uncertainty, the magnitude of fines and aversion against making …

able to emerge to internalize the externalities that caused the private system to generate too little deterrence. The model …

interaction between publicly and privately provisioned crime deterrence efforts. …

Becker’s analysis of crime and punishment has initiated a series of theoretical and empirical works investigating the … address this deficiency. The paper investigates the relative impact of deterrence variables (load on police force, arrest … endogeneity. The results show that both deterrence and socioeconomic factors are important in explaining crime rates. However …

defense policy in the rational framework of deterrence strategy. I chose the evolutionary game theory approach as my research … method. My study yielded the following result: the deterrence is not stable when the aggression level of the defenders is … substantial number of supporters who hoped to restore the deterrence. This study concludes that the Israelis exhibited strong …

We use data from the US airline industry to estimate a model of entry deterrence. We model the interaction among … move game with deterrence investments. Following Bernheim [1984], deterrence investments include all investment that raises … make in the sequential game, both with and without deterrence investments, are larger than those that they can make if the …