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Taxation and Evasion in the Presence of Extortion byOrganized Crime

Alexeev, Michael; Janeba, Eckhard; Osborne, Stefan - 1999

In pursuit of its transition from a command to a market economy, post-Soviet Russia has witnessed enormous regional differences in economic growth rates. Moreover, the economic reforms implemented under this transition, while initiated at the federal level, have also differed markedly across...

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Punish in Public

Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006

environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for …

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Market Power in Tradable Emission Markets: A Laboratory Testbed for Emission Trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria

Cason, Timothy N.; Gangadharan, Lata; Duke, Charlotte - 2003

In theory, competitive emission permit markets minimise total abatement cost for any emissionceiling. Permit markets are often imperfectly competitive, however, if they are thin anddominated by large firms. The dominant firm(s) could exercise market power and increase otherfirms’ costs of...

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A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation

Murphy, James J.; Allen, Geoffrey; Stevens, Thomas H.; … - 2003

Individuals are widely believed to overstate their economic valuation of a good by a factor of two or three. This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary willingness-to-pay and that used the same mechanism...

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Hybrid Auctions II: Experimental Evidence

Dutra, Joisa C; Menezes, Flavio - 2001

In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to examine the properties of a hybrid auction - a Dutch-Vickrey auction, that combines a sealed bid first-price auction with a sealed bid second-price auction. This auction mechanism shares some important features with that used in...

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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study

Cason, Timothy N. - 2000

This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can...

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Using the National Information Infrastructure for social science, education, and informed decision making

Tonn, B.E. - 2008

used to address four major social concerns: ensuring economic prosperity; health care; reducing crime and violence; and K …

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Essays on crime and search frictions

Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008

a job and/or crime opportunity.Chapter 1 looks at how long it takes for released inmates to find a job, and when they … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent.Chapter 2 incorporates crime into a …

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The Role of Driving Behavior in the Debate Over Racially Biased Policing

Cherkauskas, Jennifer Marie-Calnon - 2011

The most frequently explored question in traffic stop data analysis studies is whether drivers race/ethnicity influences police officers stopping behavior. The public perceptions of racially biased policing are entirely focused on the behavior of police officers. Thus, it is not surprising that...

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Essays on Crime and Tax Evasion

Turner, Sean C - 2010

This dissertation consists of three essays addressing two issues related to crime and tax evasion. The first essay … investigates the relationship between property and violent crime with law enforcement expenditures. The second essay examines the …-making.Chapter one attempts to identify the impact on crime of increasing law enforcement expenditures. We examine the specific channels …

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