Cybercrime is typically profiled as a skill-intensive crime committed by educated, young criminals. This observation … investigation, it is shown that electronic skills induce more cybercrime under weak institutions where the rules of law do not … institutions suggests that institutional factors are crucial to allocating human capital between productive and criminal activities …

to 2003. More precisely, this paper derives measures for similarity of institutions and structural reforms, and … bilateral data. Our findings indicate a strong instantaneous relationship between both similarity of institutions as well as …