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Deterrence and age thresholds in punishment in British criminal law

Braakmann, Nils - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of three age thresholds in British criminal law on self-reported offending: the possibility of custody at age 15, the switch from juvenile to adult law at age 18 and the switch from young offender institutions to adult prisons at age 21. Using longitudinal data...

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Perfect-Substitutes, Best-Shot, and Weakest-Link Contests between Groups

Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This experiment investigates contests between groups. Each group has one strong player, with a higher valuation for the …

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Detection avoidance and deterrence: some paradoxical arithmetics

Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper extends Malik's (1990) analysis to the case where criminals' avoidance efforts and public expenditures in the detection of criminals are strategic complements in the aggregate technology of control of illegal behaviours. In this set up, we show that whenever criminals' avoidance...

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Deterrence of a criminal team: how to rely on its members' shortcomings?

Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

sensibilities towards the risk of arrestation and punishment, and at the same time have different skills with respect to general …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835537

Too much or not enough crimes? On the ambiguous effects of repression

Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal enforcement of the penal code when criminals invest in a specific class of avoidance activities termed dissembling activities (i.e. self-protection efforts undertaken by criminals to hedge their illegal gains in case of detection and...

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Crime and Punishment Revisited

Kelaher, Richard; Sarafidis, Vasilis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

more influential in reducing crime than raising the expected severity of punishment. Violent crime is more persistent and …

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Assessing the Impact of Deterrence on Road Safety due to the Demerit Point System

Chandler, Vincent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper assesses the impact of a decrease in demerit points on the probability of traffic violation. To address the inherent heterogeneity of drivers, I use the expiration process of points to compare the behaviour of similar drivers with different demerit points. I find that a 3-point...

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Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games

Cason, Timothy; Sheremeta, Roman; Zhang, Jingjing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending …. As a result, intra-group communication decreases while inter-group communication increases payoffs. Our experiment thus …

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Do Women Panic More Than Men? An Experimental Study on Financial Decision

Kiss, Hubert Janos; Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We report experimental evidence on gender differences in financial decision that involves three depositors choosing between waiting or withdrawing their money from a common bank. We find that the position in the line, the fact of being observed and the observed decisions are key determinants to...

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You Can’t Put Old Wine in New Bottles: The Effect of Newcomers on Coordination in Groups

McCarter, Matthew; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

of member change on performance? To answer these questions we conduct an experiment in which we investigate the effect of … first part of the experiment, and then two members of the group are replaced with new participants, and the newly formed … group plays the game for the second part of the experiment. Our results show that the arrival of newcomers decreases trust …

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