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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Quack, Sigrid - 2012
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102832
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Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income
Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2005
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321518
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Immigration and crime in early 20th century America
Moehling, Carolyn; Piehl, Anne Morrison - 2007
Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have … lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266333
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Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities … correlation between ideological beliefs and criminal activity, finding that crime victims are more likely to believe that hard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278276
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Inequality and crime: Separating the effects of permanent and transitory income
Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2005
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper … income and, second, estimating crime equations with the two separate income components as explanatory variables. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317898
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Education and crime over the life cycle
Fella, Giulio; Gallipoli, Giovanni - 2008
In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … considered an effective and cost-viable alternative to interventions based on harsher punishment alone. In particular we study … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280784
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Jury discrimination in criminal trials
Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi - 2010
This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the jury pool to isolate quasi-random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280757
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment
Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287731
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The big carrot: High-stakes incentives revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009
Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice. First, we show that incentives (based on absolute belief) play a salient role in religious performance. Second, we find that, when both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335978
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Civic engagement as a second-order public good: The cooperative underpinnings of the accountable state
Kamei, Kenju; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019
Effective states provide public goods by taxing their citizens and imposing penalties for non-compliance. However, accountable government requires that enough citizens are civically engaged. We study the voluntary cooperative underpinnings of the accountable state by conducting a two-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385442