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Is there an electoral-motivated crime rate cycle? Evidence from Argentina

Meloni, Osvaldo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In the last three decades Argentina tripled its crime rate boosting safety at the top of mayor concerns of Argentineans … investigates electorally-motivated crime rate fluctuations in Argentina for the period 1984-2007. District–level dynamic panel data …

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Budget Manipulation and Vertical Fiscal Imbalance

Meloni, Osvaldo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

-induced fiscal fluctuations in Argentina for the period 1985-2007. Province –level dynamic panel data reveals that vertical fiscal …

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Does poverty relief spending reduce crime? Evidence from Argentina

Meloni, Osvaldo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A large body of empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and serious crime. This paper contributes to the debate using data from the...

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Does poverty relief spending reduce crime? Evidence from Argentina

Meloni, Osvaldo - In: International Review of Law and Economics 39 (2014) C, pp. 28-38

A large body of theoretical empirical research suggests that welfare spending reduces crime. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that there is no relationship between several measures of welfare spending and crime. This paper contributes to the debate using data from...

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Determinants of the Crime Rate in Argentina during the 90's

Cerro, Ana María; Meloni, Osvaldo - EconWPA - 2005

proposed by Becker (1968), the present paper identifies the determinants of the crime rate in Argentina using a panel data for … 1990-99. As in previous papers studying the Argentina case, it is found that deterrence variables are important. However …

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CRISES & CRASHES: ARGENTINA 1885 – 2003

Meloni, Osvaldo; Cerro, Ana María - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is aimed at studying the determinants of currency crises suffered by Argentina from 1885 to 2003, on one … used to characterize currency crises in Argentina show the importance of the fiscal side. Adverse foreign factors had also …

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