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Efficient institutions and effective deterrence: on timing and uncertainty of formal sanctions

Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen; Posten, Ann-Christin - 2021

Economic theory suggests that the deterrence of deviant behavior is driven by a combination of severity and certainty … of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly … thereof. By varying these dimensions of delay systematically, we find a surprising non-monotonic relation with deterrence …

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Optimal law enforcement with sophisticated and naive offenders

Buechel, Berno; Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2018

Research in criminology has shown that the perceived risk of apprehension often differs substantially from the true level. To account for this insight, we extend the standard economic model of law enforcement (Becker, 1968) by considering two types of offenders, sophisticates and naïves. The...

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Efficient institutions and effective deterrence : on timing and uncertainty of formal sanctions

Buckenmaier, Johannes; Dimant, Eugen; Posten, Ann-Christin - 2020

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Police reorganization and crime : evidence from police station closures

Blesse, Sebastian; Diegmann, André - 2018

reallocation via station closures on municipal crime by exploiting a quasi-experiment where a centrally administered reform …

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Beware of broken windows! : first impressions in public-good experiments

Beckenkamp, Martin; Engel, Christoph; Glöckner, Andreas; … - 2009

; Impression Management ; Criminal Policy ; Public Good Experiment …

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Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the Pampas : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Castro, Lucio - 2013

consensus. This paper reports the results of a large field experiment that tried to affect compliance by influencing property …

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Tax compliance and enforcement in the Pampas : evidence from a field experiment

Castro, Lucio; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2013

consensus. This paper reports the results of a large field experiment that tried to affect compliance by influencing property …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246465

Salience and the severity versus the certainty of punishment

Mungan, Murat C. - In: International review of law and economics 57 (2019), pp. 95-100

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The short- and long-run effects of private law enforcement : evidence from university police

Heaton, Paul S.; Hunt, Priscillia E.; MacDonald, John M.; … - 2015

Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately-funded university police force and crime in a large U.S. city....

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Punitive police? : agency costs, law enforcement, and criminal procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika; Garoupa, Nuno; McAdams, Richard H. - 2015 - Revised version: April 2015

Criminal law enforcement depends on the actions of public agents such as police officers, but the resulting agency problems have been neglected in the law and economics literature (especially outside the specific context of corruption). We develop an agency model of police behavior that...

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