presented points to a causal effect of the IGESP on crime. The most conservative estimates indicate a reduction of 24% in … property crimes and 13% in personal crimes. There is also evidence that the IGESP is associated with improved police response … represented by the program may constitute a first-order factor in a successful policy for fighting crime. …

simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which …This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the … requested police officers are recruited and become operational. We show that this endogeneity vanishes once, controlling for …

positive relationship between tourism and crime in destinations. When using the level rather than the rate of total crime and … tourist population. Therefore, the main explanation for the impact of tourism on crime seems to be agglomeration effects. … greater amount of crime than non-tourist ones in the short and long run. Following the literature of the economics of crime à …

contributions for the original citizens. As an empirical example, we employ Germany?s crime statistic in order to assess the … efficiency of the provision of police services at the state level. …

spending on police services reduces the attractiveness of committing a crime. We also assume that being a victim of crime …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 …

This paper argues that terrorism, beyond its immediate impact on innocent victims, also raises the costs of crime, and … therefore, imposes a negative externality on potential criminals. Terrorism raises the costs of crime through two channels: (i …) by increasing the presence and activity of the police force, and (ii) causing more people to stay at home rather than …

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the … identifies a causal impact of police on crime. Implementing an instrumental variable approach shows an elasticity of crime with … respect to police of approximately -0.3, so that a 10 percent increase in police activity reduces crime by around 3 percent. …

The tourism labour market is facing major challenges, such as the shortage of labour or the high fluctuation of workers … of external shocks on tourism demand, there have so far been only a few tourism studies that deal with the specific … consequences of external shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic for the tourism labour market and the companies affected. [...] …

Engagement der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft reduziert werden kann, im Gegenteil: Der Ausbau von Streitkräften und Polizei …

In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime … Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources to some police force areas to combat street crime, whereas other forces … increased police resources do in fact lead to lower crime, at least in the context of the SCI programme we study. …