Cebula, Richard J.; Koch, James V. - In: The Open Economics Journal 1 (2008), pp. 37-46
According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, identity theft constituted the number one consumer complaint in the United States in 2006. Using state-level data for the 50 states for 2005, we find, among other things, that the rate of reported identity theft per 100,000 population is directly...