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Black sheep or scapegoats? : implementable monitoring policies under unobservable levels of misbehavior
Buechel, Berno; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2014
An authority delegates a monitoring task to an agent. It can only observe the number of detected offenders, but neither the monitoring intensity chosen by the agent nor the resulting level of misbehavior. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the implementability of monitoring...
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Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law
Gamba, Astrid; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2016
, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …
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Organized Crime as the Link between Inequality and Corruption
Schwuchow, Soeren C. - 2019
reinforcing inequality and corruption. Despite the broad empirical evidence, there are only a few formal theoretical models on … these dynamics. Relying on a game-theoretic approach, we show how inequality and corruption are interconnected via a crime … societies feature high levels of corruption and criminal activity. Surprisingly, our results allow for the interpretation that …
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Neutralizing the tentacles of organized crime : assessment of the impact of an anti-crime measure on mafia violence in Italy
Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo; Stimolo, Marco - 2023
increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to …
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Contagious Dishonesty : Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft
Gulino, Giorgio; Masera, Federico - 2022
Is dishonest behavior contagious? We answer this question by studying whether corruption scandals affect the propensity … shoppers, we show that the probability of stealing increases by 16% after a local corruption scandal breaks. This effect is not …
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Optimal Criminal Behavior and the Disutility of Jail: Theory and Evidence On Bank Robberies
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2011
Based on unique data on individual bank robberies perpetrated in Italy between 2005 and 2007, this paper estimates the distribution of criminals' disutility of jail. The identification rests on the money versus risk trade-off criminals face when deciding whether to stay an additional minute...
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Deterrence from self-protection measures in the ‘market model’ of crime: dynamic panel data estimates from employment in private security occupations
Zimmerman, Paul R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
interaction between publicly and privately provisioned crime deterrence efforts. …
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The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation
Guarín, Arlen; Medina, Carlos; Tamayo, Jorge Andrés - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2013
crimes, but a deterrence effect was found on non-index crimes, specifically those related to drug consumption and trafficking … specific deterrence effect resulting from the harsher experience while in prison of those arrested right after, rather than …
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The deterrence of crime through private security efforts: Theory and evidence
Zimmerman, Paul R. - In: International Review of Law and Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 66-75
Private individuals and entities invest in a wide variety of market-provisioned self-protection devices or services to mitigate their probability of victimization to crime. However, evaluating the effect of such private security measures remains understudied in the economics of crime literature....
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Crime and Punishment Revisited
Kelaher, Richard; Sarafidis, Vasilis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Despite an abundance of empirical evidence on crime spanning over forty years, there exists no consensus on the impact of the criminal justice system on crime activity. We argue that this may be due to the combined effect of simultaneity, omitted variable bias and aggregation bias that may...
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