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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. The Effect of Punishment on Offenders and Non-Offenders
Engel, Christoph; Irlenbusch, Bernd - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2010
purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment … prevention effect but show that the deterrence effect is smaller the more information on individual punishment is available. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633210
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Deterrence by Imperfect Sanctions – A Public Good Experiment
Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667903
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Rough set methodology in meta-analysis - a comparative and exploratory analysis
Rupp, Thomas - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2005
We study the applicability of the pattern recognition methodology "rough set data analysis" (RSDA) in the field of meta analysis. We give a summary of the mathematical and statistical background and then proceed to an application of the theory to a meta analysis of empirical studies dealing with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464649
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
III, John J. Donohue; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of capital punishment. We assess the various approaches that have been used in this literature, testing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762061
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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808603
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Factores socioeconómicos y demográficos de distintas categorías de delitos en Colombia. Prueba desde un panel de datos de las regiones de Colombia
Mancera, Alejandro - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL CARIBE (2008)
rate like: the deterrence variable or rate of efficiency of the Police, that it was built as the reason of the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527494
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Judicial Errors and Crime Deterrence: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Rizzolli, Matteo; Stanca, Luca - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2009
The standard economic theory of crime deterrence predicts that the conviction of an innocent (type-I error) is as … detrimental to deterrence as the acquittal of a guilty individual (type-II error). In this paper, we qualify this result …, type-I errors can have a larger effect on deterrence than type-II errors. We test these predictions with an experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987434
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Deterred or Detained? A Unified Model of Criminal Punishment
Miceli, Thomas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009
The standard economic model of crime since Becker (1968) is primarily concerned with deterrence. Actual punishment … fixed, incapacitation can result in a longer or a shorter optimal prison term compared to the deterrence-only model. It is … constrained by offenders' wealth, the optimal prison term is zero. Since the fine achieves first-best deterrence, only efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059246
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Why Kill Politicians? A Rational Choice Analysis of Political Assassinations
Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007
In the course of history a large number of politicians has been assassinated. A rational choice analysis is used to distinguish the expected marginal benefits of killing, and the marginal cost of attacking a politician. The comparative analysis of various equilibria helps us to gain insights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162609
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Politicians: Be Killed or Survive
Frey, Bruno S.; Torgler, Benno - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2009
In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181700