Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that … increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, this kind of anti-crime measure might also induce …

currency, corruption, and terror funding. With time, more targets were added such as the creation of a cashless economy … currency had found its way back to the banks suggesting first, that most black money in the Indian economy is not held as cash …

Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 …

The ambiguous phenomenon of corruption has long been the cause of great theoretical debate in economics. By using … Structural Equation Modelling, with the two types of corruption as a latent variable, this paper employs causal and indicative … variables specific to the Latin American region to test for rent seeking and systemic corruption in the period between 1980 …

Despite the widespread debate about crime in Brazil and the alarming increase in homicides in recent years, few studies …

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 …

Driving restriction programs have been implemented in many cities around the world to alleviate pollution and … congestion problems. Enforcement of such programs is costly and can potentially displace policing resources used for crime … prevention and crime detection. Hence, driving restrictions may increase crime. To test this hypothesis, this paper exploits both …