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Guanxi in Chinese Commerce : Informal Enforcement in Spanish Philippines

Clemente, Tina - 2013

How did Chinese merchants remedy opportunism in a prevailing scenario of weak state enforcement during the Spanish period in the Philippines? The paper attempts to analyze 19th century historical accounts in elucidating how the utilization of guanxi sanctions provides useful insights in...

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Social Behaviors, Enforcement, and Tax Compliance Dynamics

Davis, Jon S.; Hecht, Gary; Perkins, Jon D. - 2002

We analyze the effect of social norms and enforcement on the dynamics of taxpayer compliance. Specifically, we develop two models to evaluate the movement between classes of compliant and noncompliant taxpayers. Our analysis suggests that the effect on compliance of changing enforcement levels...

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Self Enforcing Environmental Agreements, Delayed Information and External Enforcement in a Continuous Time Fish Wars Model with State Dependent Constraints

Singh, Rajani - 2018

In this paper, we analyse a continuous time version of Fish Wars with the infinite time horizon and state dependent constraints on controls. We calculate the social optimum and a Nash equilibrium which always leads to the depletion of the resource even if the social optimum results in the...

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Interaction of Interpol Ukrbureau Units with the state migration service of Ukaine to Combat ecnomic crimes committed by foreigner

Chornyi, Serhii; Ostrovskyi, Serhii; Gaponov, Oleksandr - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 7 (2021) 5, pp. 221-227

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Chapter 25. Economic Analysis of Law

Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 3, (pp. 1661-1784). 2002

This is a survey of economic analysis of law, that is, of the emerging field under which the standard tools of microeconomics are employed to identify the effects of legal rules and their social desirability. Five basic subject areas are covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we...

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Labor market impacts of reducing felony convictions

Agan, Amanda; Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; Mas, Alexandre - 2023

We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random order, without requiring input or action from affected individuals. Linking records of...

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The welfare effects of law enforcement in the illegal money lending market

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Pavanini, Nicola; Walsh, … - 2022

We estimate a structural model of borrowing and lending in the illegal money lending market using a unique panel survey of 1,090 borrowers taking out 11,032 loans from loan sharks. We use the model to evaluate the welfare effects of alternative law enforcement strategies. We find that a large...

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Socially optimal crime and punishment

Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2022

This paper develops a dynamic life-cycle equilibrium model of crime with hetero-geneous agents and human capital … accumulation. Agents decide at each point in time whether to commit crimes by comparing potential gains from crime to the expected … form estimates or traditional partial equilibrium, static models of crime. Equilibrium effects can be particularly relevant …

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Acquisitive crime, sentencing and detection : an analysis of England and Wales

Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Bhattacharya, Samrat; Koli, … - 2012

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Focusing law enforcement when offenders can choose location

Friehe, Tim; Miceli, Thomas J. - 2014

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