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Limiting Court Behavior: A Case for High Minimum Sentences and Low Maximum Ones

Pallage, Stephane; Demougin, Dominique - 2001

We model a simple justice system in which a court is mandated by society to assess the guilt and the punishment of an …

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The Dynamics of Neighbourhood Watch and Norm Enforcement

Huck, Steffen; Kosfeld, Michael - 2004

We analyze the dynamics of neighbourhood watch programs in a local interaction framework. Agents can watch their neighbours' houses and thus deter burglars from breaking in....

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Using Penalties instead of Rewards: Solving OCST Problems with Problem-Specic Guided Local Search

Steitz, Wolfgang; Rothlauf, Franz - Universität <Mainz> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2011

This paper considers the optimal communication spanning tree (OCST) problem. Previouswork analyzed features of high-quality solutions and found that edges in optimal solutions havelow weight and point towards the center of a tree. Consequently, integrating this problem-specific knowledge into a...

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Political Institutions and Policy Competition

Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

The theme of this year's WDR is how to structure institutions to bring about an effectively functioning market economy. There is no question that political institutions play a key role here. In most countries political institutions determine the rules of access to considerable discretionary...

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Taking punishment into your own hands: An experiment on the motivation underlying punishment

Dürsch, Peter; Müller, Julia - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2010

In a punishment experiment, we separate the demand for punishmentin general from a possible demand to conduct … punishmentpersonally. Subjects experience an unfair split of their earnings froma real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of … auction only resolves who will punish, notwhether punishment takes place, so only subjects with a demand forpersonal …

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On the Use of Racial Profiling as a Law EnforcementTool

Bunzel, Helle; Marcoul, Philippe - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

The “End Racial Profiling Act of 2001” (ERPA) states that “nolaw enforcement agent or law enforcement agency shall engage in racial profiling” andmandates states to “collect detailed data on stops, searches, seizures, and arrests.” Wedevelop a stylized dynamic model of highway...

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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty?Evidence from South Africa

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning inPrivileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its membersfind it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherentasymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informalsanctioning harder to accomplish...

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Retributive Responses

Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Ockenfels, Axel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

Retributive responses do play a role in human behavior. Whether they are primarily triggered by supposed intentions or by observed consequences of actions is an important question. It can be addressed by experimental studies of retributive responses in situations in which the individual actor my...

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Punishment with Uncertain Outcomesin the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Dürsch, Peter; Servátka, Maroš - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2009

This paper experimentally investigates whether risk-averseindividuals punish less if the outcome of punishment is … the other player’s payoffby 2 Euros; and Uncertain Punishment in which subjects could decreasethe other player’s payoff …

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