spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In …

for conventional enforcement. Increasingly sophisticated research examines the benefits of cleanup of contaminated sites …

sufficiently costly, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country in which they have perpetrated a crime …We develop a model in which two countries choose their enforcement levels non-cooperatively, in order to deter native … and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. We assume that crime is mobile, both ex ante (migration …

enforcement and measures their impact on money laundering proxies. The paper finds that tougher money laundering regulations …

This paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of the relationship between EU cartel enforcement in the chemical industry … following this period of enforcement. Its findings are consistent with cartel enforcement prompting significant investment in … and in enforcement action against only one hard core cartel in the decade that followed …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … the effect of subsidizing high school completion. Most econometric studies of the impact of crime policies ignore … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …