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aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
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fehlenden Schätzungen der Kosten in Kriminalität, ferner nimmt Deutschland im Vergleich zu anderen Industrieländern an den …
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The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs?crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper provides an econometric assessment of the drugs?crime channel within …
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prisoner health care by installing effective anti-drug programmes would be one of the most effective measures against crime. …
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currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … East and West Germany. Our results are based on static and dynamic panel econometrics/criminometrics. They confirm the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …
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This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...
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Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...
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With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …
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This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … of Germany. …
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The savings banks? decision to distribute profits among their public owners is strongly regulated by law in order to guarantee their adequate funding via retained profits. However, the legal scope is reluctantly exhausted. In this study we examine the determinants of the savings banks? payout...
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