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A Nation-Wide Laboratory : Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Survey

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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Taxes and Benefits : Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We explore differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to...

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Social Capital and Relative Income Concerns : Evidence from 26 Countries

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - 2008

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Social capital and relative income concerns : evidence from 26 countries

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Torgler, Benno - 2007

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Capabilities, management, relational capital and the impact on alliance performance: an empirical study with non-equity alliances

Ouden, Brian den; Ziggers, Gerrit Willem; Duysters, Geert - In: Strategies for cooperation, (pp. 153-171). 2005

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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

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Balzac and the Crimes of the Powerful

Ruggiero, Vincenzo - In: Societies 5 (2015) 2, pp. 325-338

This paper proposes a journey through some of the many novels written by Honoré de Balzac, through the mythic constitution of his world, his epic, which summons up the same recurrent circle of figures: his “human comedy” will offer surprising insights for a better understanding of the...

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Crimonometric Analysis: Testing the Deterrence Hypothesis in Sabah

Lau, Evan; Hamzah, Siti Nur Zahara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper empirically estimates disaggregated crime categories for Sabah from 1968 to 2006. The criminometric analysis … prison or courts related variables. In the long run we find that only robbery is exogenous in all crime model tested however …, the beyond sample estimation proves that in longer time period of approximately 50 years the post-sample dynamic VDCs …

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A REFINED INGLEHART INDEX OF MATERIALISM AND POSTMATERIALISM

Hansen, Oliver; Tol, Richard S.J. - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), … - 2003

analysis to correct national averages of the Inglehart index for the effects of observed inflation and (violent) crime rates … for selected European, Asian and South American countries. Low inflation and low crime rates significantly increase the …

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A economia do crime: uma abordagem a partir da Região Policial da Grande São Paulo

Carrera-Fernandez, José; Pereira, Rogério - In: Economia 3 (2002) 1, pp. 193-230

approach of the economics of crime. It was taken to the analysis the crimes of theft, robbery, and theft and robbery of … vehicles, as well as the aggregate of these three modalities of crime, all reported to the police in that important region. The … analysis was based on well known models in the fields of economics of crime and econometrics, capable to analyze the importance …

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