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Private law enforcement with competing groups

Yahagi, Ken - In: Economics of governance 19 (2018) 3, pp. 285-297

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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police

Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015

known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately …-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private … police force, we see no short-term change in crime. However, using a geographic regression discontinuity approach, we find …

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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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Toward an economic theory of religious belief and the emergence of law

Coşgel, Metin Murat; Miceli, Thomas J. - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 175 (2019) 4, pp. 692-713

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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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