İmrohoroĝlu, Ayse; Merlo, Antonio; Rupert, Peter - In: Journal of Economics and Finance 30 (2006) 2, pp. 270-284
In this paper, we use an overlapping generations model where individuals are allowed to engage in both legitimate market activities and criminal behavior in order to assess the role of certain factors on the property crime rate. In particular, we investigate if differences in the unemployment...