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Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment
Kugler, Maurice; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2003
and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and … corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … punishment induce organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads too higher rather than lower crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320108
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Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment
Kugler, Maurice; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
in corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and corruption … organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads to higher rather than lower crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788890
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Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment
Kugler, Maurice; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
and engage in local corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and … corruption detection highly probable, we show that increasing policing or sanctions effectively deters crime. However, when … punishment induce organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads too higher rather than lower crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419529
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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377257
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Toward a General Theory of Peer Effects
Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2022
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We provide two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084165
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Towards a General Theory of Peer Effects
Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345571
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Towards a general theory of peer effects
Boucher, Vincent; Rendall, Michelle; Ushchev, Philip; … - 2023
There is substantial empirical evidence showing that peer effects matter in many activities. The workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects is the linear-in-means (LIM) model, whereby it is assumed that agents are linearly affected by the mean action of their peers. We develop a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325138
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Racial Beliefs, Location and the Causes of Crime
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2003
This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites - even if there is no basis for this - then blacks are offered lower wages and, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320050
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Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education and Crime
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2005
This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education and crime. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Bonacich centrality measure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320058
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Crime, Location and the Housing Market
Zenou, Yves - 2005
We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we find that high wages or large levels of police...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320096