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Police Discretion and Public Safety
Gonçalves, Felipe M.; Mello, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the implications of police discretion for public safety. Highway patrol officers exercise discretion over fines by deviating from statutory fine rules. Relying on variation across officers in this discretionary behavior, we find that harsher sanctions reduce future traffic offending and...
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Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud Detection
Shekhar, Shubhranshu; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Akoglu, Leman - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The US spends more than 4 trillion dollars per year on health care, largely conducted by private providers and reimbursed by insurers. A major concern in this system is overbilling, waste and fraud by providers, who face incentives to misreport on their claims in order to receive higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226143
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Market Response to Racial Uprisings
Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do investors anticipate that demands for racial equity will impact companies? We explore this question in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement--the largest racially motivated protest movement in U.S. history--and its effect on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337839
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The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1999
This article surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law -- the use of public agents (inspectors, tax auditors …, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. We first present the basic elements of the theory … examine a variety of extensions of the central theory, concerning accidental harms, costs of imposing fines, errors, general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471807
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The Private Enforcement of Law
Landes, William M. - 1974
An important question in the economic study of enforcement is the appropriate, and the actual, division of responsibilities between public and private enforcers. This question has been brought into sharp focus recently by an article in which Gary Becker and George Stigler advocate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479061
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Citizen Rights and the Cost of Law Enforcement
Reder, Melvin - 1973
There is an inherent tension between the idea that individuals have certain inalienable (natural) rights and the economist's postulate that the rate if utilization of anything whose production requires scarce resources must be limited by considerations of opportunity cost. Remarks about rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479113
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Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law
Shavell, Steven - 2003
This paper contains a chapter on the general structure of the law from a forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). In this chapter, I consider basic features of the legal system, including whether the law directly constrains behavior or channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468999
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Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law
Shavell, Steven - 2003
enforcement are discussed in the chapters that follow. In chapter 20, the basic theory of public enforcement employing monetary … sanctions is discussed; in chapter 21, the basic theory of enforcement using nonmonetary sanctions is examined; and in chapter … 22, extensions to the basic theory are considered. Then, in chapter 23, functions of sanctions apart from deterrence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469000
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Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1999
This article analyzes corruption of law enforcement agents: payment of bribes to agents so that they will not report violations. Corruption dilutes deterrence because bribe payments are less than sanctions. The state may not be able to offset this effect of bribery by raising sanctions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471862
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On the Optimal Burden of Proof
Kaplow, Louis - 2012
The burden of proof is a central feature of adjudication, and analogues exist in many other settings. It constitutes an important but largely unappreciated policy instrument that interacts with the level of enforcement effort and magnitude of sanctions in controlling harmful activity. Models are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460894