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The Emergence of the European Counterfeit Markets
Maftei, Loredana - In: CES Working Papers 5 (2013) 2, pp. 246-253
pharmaceuticals industry. This article is aimed to expose the dynamic of the European counterfeiting markets, to highlight the main …
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Peer Effects in Prison
Johnsen, Julian V.; Khoury, Laura - 2024
Peer interactions play a key role in the criminal sector due to its secrecy and lack of formal institutions. A significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader understanding of how peer effects shape criminal...
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Peer effects in prison
Johnsen, Julian; Khoury, Laura - 2024
Peer interactions play a key role in the criminal sector due to its secrecy and lack of formal institutions. A significant part of criminal peer exposure happens in prison, directly influenced by policymakers. This paper provides a broader understanding of how peer effects shape criminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580747
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Pirates of the Mediterranean : an empirical investigation of bargaining with asymmetric information
Ambrus, Attila; Chaney, Eric; Salitskiy, Igor - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 1, pp. 217-246
We investigate the effect of delay on prices in bargaining situations using a data set containing thousands of captives ransomed from Barbary pirates between 1575 and 1692. Plausibly exogenous variation in the delay in ransoming provides ev- idence that negotiating delays decreased the size of...
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The Criminal Ecology of Payment Systems : How ‘Identity Theft’ Evolved from Plastic Counterfeiting to ‘Crime of the Century’
Dupont, Benoit - 2014
In one of his classical articles, Edwin Sutherland highlighted as early as 1940 the mutual benefits that economists and criminologists could derive from a better integration of their knowledge. Although his interdisciplinary invitation was aimed at white collar crime, other forms of delinquency...
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Counterfeit Money
Smith, Lones - 2014
. The model sheds light on how the counterfeiting rates, the counterfeit quality, and the cost of attention vary in response …
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The Law of International Sea Piracy
Dubner, Barry - 2015
The word "piracy" has been applied to acts of murder, robbery, plunder, rape and other villainous deeds which have … transpired throughout history. Piracy usually conjures up images of a flag with skull and crossbones and of swashbucklers …, plundering ships and taking booty as prize. Traditionally, acts of piracy have been condemned by municipal law. It was not until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139359
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Panama Papers: Steueroasen im Visier – was ist noch legal, welche Mittel wirken gegen Missbrauch?
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Schneider, Friedrich; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 11, pp. 3-20
Im April 2016 veröffentlichte das »International Consortium of Investigative Journalists« die sogenannten »Panama Papers«, die Einblicke in ein System von Steueroasen und Briefkastenfirmen boten. Alfons J. Weichenrieder, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, sieht den politischen Druck auf die...
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Irredeemably Inefficient Acts : A Threat to Markets, Firms, and the Fisc
Raskolnikov, Alex - 2014
This Article defines and explores irredeemably inefficient acts — a conceptually distinct and empirically important category of socially undesirable conduct. Though inefficient behavior is, no doubt, pervasive, the standard view holds that inefficient conduct may be converted into efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064273
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Tax Evasion As a Crime : A Survey of Perception in Kosovo
Mamuti, Agim - 2017
The goal of this paper is to explore the perception of Kosovo's citizens of the severity of tax evasion relative to other crimes and abuses. Perception of tax evasion may somewhat clarify the degree of rebelliousness with the tax laws. Using data from a self-administered survey and a personnel...
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