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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775869
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282766
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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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Uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate
Donohue, John J.; Wolfers, Justin - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
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Prison conditions and recidivism
Drago, Francesco; Galbiati, Roberto; Vertova, Pietro - 2008
We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of...
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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 …
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Is the severity of the penalty an effective deterrent? : a strategic approach for the crime of tax evasion
Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2016
In order to analyze the severity of sentencing, and to show how the probabilistic interpretation of strategic behavior can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any attempts to increase the severity of punishment will...
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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