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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime
Traub, Stefan - 2006
efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296256
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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Viveiros, Igor - 2010
property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807406
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Political competition and convergence to fundamentals : with application to the political business cycle and the size of government
Ferris, J. Stephen; Park, Soo-Bin; Winer, Stanley L. - 2006
We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276133
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Public expenditure and international specialisation
Brülhart, Marius; Trionfetti, Federico - 2001
It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295571
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The effect of trade openness on optimal government size under endogenous firm entry
Hanslin, Sandra - 2008
This paper analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on government spending in a general equilibrium model with a continuum of industries supplying tradable and nontradable goods under monopolistic competition. Trade liberalization is modeled as the opening up of product markets between two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315478
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Trade openness, gains from variety and government spending
Hanslin, Sandra - 2010
This paper investigates empirically the effect of import diversity on government size and provides evidence for the love of variety effect on government spending described in Hanslin (2008). I argue that crowding out of firms is an important cost of public good provision. However, due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315489
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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007
We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than … less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In … spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266339
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Das internationale Engagement in Afghanistan: Strategien, Perspektiven, Konsequenzen
Schmidt, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Engagement der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft reduziert werden kann, im Gegenteil: Der Ausbau von Streitkräften und Polizei …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178538
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Police and crime: Evidence from dictated delays in centralized police hiring
Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2012
This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282200
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The regional dimension of knowledge transfers: a behavioral approach
Broekel, Tom; Binder, Martin - 2006
Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266701