SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2006-053 Governance: Who Controls Matters Bruno Deffains* Dominique Demougin** * University of Nancy 2 and CNRS, France ** School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany This research was supported by the...

We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....

We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-o¤ between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....