Theories of crime in economics focus on the roles of deterrence and incapacitation in reducing criminal activity. In addition to deterrence, a growing body of empirical evidence has shown that both income support and employment subsidies can play a role in crime reduction. This paper extends the...

The extent to which environmental regulatory institutions are either "green" or "brown" impacts not just the intensity of regulation at any moment, but also the incentives for the development of new pollution-control technologies. We set up a strategic model of R&D in which a polluter can deploy...

We compare monopoly profit, consumer surplus, and total welfare associated with three commonly-used tying strategies: no tying, pure tying, and mixed tying. Whereas previous literature focused mainly on profit comparisons, this paper evaluates the relationship between component production costs...