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Geographical distribution of crime in Italian provinces: A spatial econometric analysis

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Uberti, Teodora Erika - 2008

Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of 'organised crime' (e … determinants of Italian crime for 1999 and 2003 and its 'neighbouring' effects, measured in terms of geographical and relational … have a relevant impact on crime activities, but their role changes enormously respect to crimes against person (murders) or …

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'Thou shalt not covet ...': prohibitions, temptation and moral values

Cervellati, Matteo; Vanin, Paolo - 2010

, thereby serving as partial commitment devices. We apply the model to crime and study the conditions under which agents would … optimally adhere to moral values of honesty. Incentives to be moral are non- monotonic in the crime premium. Larger external …

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Conscription and crime: evidence from the Argentine draft lottery

Galiani, Sebastian; Rossi, Martín A.; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2010

We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in the military service on the involvement in criminal activities. We exploit the random assignment of young men to military service in Argentina through a draft lottery to identify this causal effect. Using a unique set of administrative...

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Migration restrictions and criminal behavior: Evidence from a natural experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - 2011

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...

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Criminal networks: Who is the key player?

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves; Lee, … - 2012

showing who the key player is, i.e. the criminal who once removed generates the highest possible reduction in aggregate crime …

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Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements

Dietz, Simon; Marchiori, Carmen; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2012

The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a single set of national-level motivations, together drawing a...

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Networks of many public goods with non-linear best replies

Rébillé, Yann; Richefort, Lionel - 2015

We model a bipartite network in which links connect agents with public goods. Agents play a voluntary contribution game in which they decide how much to contribute to each public good they are connected to. We show that the problem of finding a Nash equilibrium can be posed as a non-linear...

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Tradable Landuse Rights for Biodiversity Conservation: An Application to Canada's Boreal Mixedwood Forest

Weber, Marian - 2004

Ecological reserve networks are an important strategy for conserving biodiversity. One approach to selecting reserves is to use optimization algorithms that maximize an ecological objective function subject to a total reserve area constraint. Under this approach, economic factors such as...

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International Cooperation to Resolve International Pollution Problems

Finus, Michael - 2004

This article provides a non-technical overview of important results of the game theoretical literature on the formation and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) on transboundary pollution control. It starts out by sketching features of first and second best solutions to the...

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Optimal Disease Eradication

Hoel, Michael; Barrett, Scott - 2004

Using a dynamic model of the control of an infectious disease, we derive the conditions under which eradication will be optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication. A high vaccination rate is never optimal. Under special...

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