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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 accused. The court takes prison facilities as given and neglects its impact on the cost to society of implementing the sentence. Clearly, the court, in this world, will condemn...

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Law Enforcement and Criminality: Europe vs. USA

Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 2001

We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor arefounded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off betweenlaw enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfersare based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables mayappear positive. We...

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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation ofCompensatory Damages

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional lossesare from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death ofa child; the third-worst is the death of a parent...

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Belästigungund Gewaltam Arbeitsplatz

Binder-Krieglstein, Cornel; Pampalk, Rosalia - Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte <Wien> - 2011

Weltweit nimmt Gewalt in Betrieben immer mehr zu. InÖsterreich sind 3,1 Prozent der Männer und 3,3 Prozentder Frauen … Gewalt leiden etwa 1,2 Prozentder Erwerbstätigen.... …

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Estimating the Peace Dividend: The impact of violence on house prices in Northern Ireland

Besley, Timothy; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regionsand over time to estimate the impact of the peace … different pattern of estimatesto the linear model. We also show that there is some evidence ofspillover effects of violence in …

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Colonialism, Globalization and the Economy of South-East India, c.1700-1900

Washbrook, David - Saint Antony’s College <Oxford> - 2006

It is not easy to write the ‘long-term’ economic history of any region in India -- which may account for the fact that very few such histories have been written. One obvious problem concerns the availability of data: where a paucity of sources for the pre-colonial period suddenly becomes...

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Die Privatisierung der öffentlichen Arbeitsverwaltung am Beispiel Australiens

Bruttel, Oliver - 2002

Australien dar. Außerdem wird eine erste Analyse der Erfahrungen vor dem theoretischenHintergrund der Neuen Institutionenökonomik …

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The Trade and Welfare Impact of AustralianQuarantine Policies: The Case of Pigmeat

Beghin, John C.; Melatos, Mark - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011

, we account for changes to Australia’s pigmeat quarantinepolicy over time including those changes related to the recent … resolution of a WTO disputebetween Australia and the European Union. Using a random utility model, and applying it tocorner … regimes implemented by Australia during the period 1988-2009. The welfare impact on consumers, producers, and foreign …

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Economic Integration and the Foreign Exchange

Weber, Enzo - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

-round integration of two economies. Empirically, such a constellation is found between Australia and New Zealand, whereas diverging … trends in money and interest rates characterise the relation of Australia towards the US. …

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Leistungsbeurteilung und Geschlechtsdiskriminierung - Kritisch-konstruktive Bemerkungen

Fried, Andrea; Wetzel, Ralf; Baitsch, Christof - 2001

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier beschäftigt sich mit Leistungsbeurteilung und Geschlechtsdiskrimierung.

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