"A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars … and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable … progress made in recent years in the economic analysis of individual and organised crime. Such progress is related to the so …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …, with two notable exceptions: auto thefts and burglaries. -- police ; crime …This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …