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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294768
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266015
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field: legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267008
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Testing enforcement strategies in the field : legal threat, moral appeal and social information
Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009
We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to en- force compliance with the law … mailings, leading to a substantial increase in compliance. Among different mailing conditions a legal threat that stresses a … information about others' behavior enhances compliance. However, the information condition has a positive effect in municipalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343916
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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany: evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998
Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297584
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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany : evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998 - (This version: 20 April 1998)
Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441227
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Speeding, punishment, and recidivism : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017
recidivating within a year by 20 percent. This is largely a specific deterrence effect driven by the punishment itself and not by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641567
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Efficiency Analysis of German Electricity Distribution Utilities : Non-Parametric and Parametric Tests
von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Cullmann, Astrid - 2005
This paper applies parametric and non-parametric and parametric tests to assess the efficiency of electricity distribution companies in Germany. We address traditional issues in electricity sector benchmarking, such as the role of scale effects and optimal utility size, as well as new evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296794
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Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2007
In this paper we analyze the incentive of the German postal service (Deutsche Post AG, DPAG) to increase quality in the light of the upcoming liberalization of the postal services market. Currently, there would be no incentive for DPAG to increase its quality if the market were not to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297983
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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010
The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302593