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How Crime can Affect Economic Performance through the Application of an ECM-Model: the Case of Guatemala
Ruiz Estrada, M.A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258758
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How Crime can Affect Economic Performance through the Application of an ECM-Model: the Case of Guatemala
Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260581
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Crime in Urban Areas: An Empirical Investigation
Gumus, Erdal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Crime is an illness that attacks rights of individuals. It therefore interests everybody in a society. It is argued that as urbanization increases so does crime. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of crime in urban areas by using cross-sectional data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260918
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The Law and Economics of Private Prosecutions in Industrial Revolution England
Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by examining an historical case-study: the system of private prosecutions that prevailed in England prior to the introduction of the police. Using a model of the market for crime, I examine why this system came under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109312
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Evaluating Economic Warfare: Lessons from Efforts to Suppress the Afghan Opium Trade
Clemens, Jeffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In the mid-2000s, U.S. anti-opium policy intensified with a goal of reducing the resources available to Afghan insurgents. To achieve this objective, I show that opium suppression efforts must accurately distinguish between insurgent and non-insurgent suppliers. The required level of accuracy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111558
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The Protection Agencies in Colombia
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111028
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Social capital and views on suicide via the internet: a study using survey data
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
individuals’ views about suicide as conveyed via the Internet. Furthermore, this paper compared the effects of social capital … Internet for a companion with whom to commit suicide. However, such a relation is not observed between social capital in the … externality of suicidal thoughts conveyed via the Internet. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271687
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Бизнес моделиране в електронната търговия
Bonev, Pavlin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper aims at presenting an in-depth review of the new economic relationships associated with the advent of e-commerce in the daily lives of consumers in Bulgaria, which greatly contributes to change and adapt to the modern business environment as well as to the new processes. In the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258864
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Not Rocket Science: A Roadmap for Arts and Cultural R&D
Bakhshi, Hasan; Freeman, Alan; Desai, Radhika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper proposes that publicly funded arts and cultural organisations should aspire to, and be funded to, engage in Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application. Not confined to novel products or processes, arts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259002
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Do privacy laws affect the location decisions of internet firms? evidence for privacy havens
ROCHELANDET, Fabrice; TAI, Silvio H.T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper empirically studies the location decisions of internet firms when they face high legal standards of privacy … protection. Many factors might influence them: technological spillovers, lower taxation, and so on. Internet firms can also … consider over-stringent. In the current stage of development of the internet – the so-called Web 2.0 – the ease of access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259213