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Guns, Environment, and Abortion : How Single-Minded Voters Shape Politicians' Decisions

Bouton, Laurent - 2018

We study how electoral incentives affect policy choices on secondary issues, which only minorities of voters care intensely about. We develop a model in which office and policy motivated politicians choose to support or oppose regulations on these issues. We derive conditions under which...

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Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight : Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation

Fehr, Ernst - 2014

The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms -- which are based on off-equilibrium arbitration clauses that...

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Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment : The Italian Case

Daniele, Vittorio - 2011

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …

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Optimal Law Enforcement with Sophisticated and Naive Offenders

Buechel, Berno - 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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Police and Crime : Further Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Cardoso, Vicente - 2018

The paper investigates the effect of police presence on homicides at the municipality level in Brazil during the January 2010 to December 2014 period. For this purpose, occasional and illegal police strikes are considered as relevant shocks in a quasi-natural experiment. After controlling for...

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The Dynamics of Domestic Violence : Learning About the Match

Anderberg, Dan - 2018

We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when a male partner's true tendency for abusive behaviour is unobserved. The model is estimated by the method of simulated moments using longitudinal data from the Avon...

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Is the Severity of the Penalty an Effective Deterrent? A Strategic Approach for the Crime of Tax Evasion

Chiarini, Bruno - 2016

can be tricky, this paper uses the crime strategic model (inspection game) proposed by Tsebelis. This model shows that any … frequency of violation at equilibrium. This result is misleading: payoffs are not independent and the crime game can not be … crime of tax evasion, where the dishonest taxpayers are rational agents, motivated by the comparison of payoffs, considering …

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 2017

adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative externalities. This paper uses particularly rich datasets from Denmark …

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Does Legalization of Sunday Alcohol Sales Increase Crime?

Lee, Jung - 2014

this policy change on crime trends in seven states using data from FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS …

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Punitive Police? Agency Costs, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Procedure

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 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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