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Can Institutions Be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police

Banerjee, Abhijit; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …

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The engine immobilizer: a non-starter for car thieves

Ours, Jan C van; Vollaard, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory for all new cars sold within the European Union as of...

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Does Regulation of Built-In Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ours, Jan C van; Vollaard, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

As of 1999, all new-built homes in the Netherlands have to have burglary-proof windows and doors. We provide evidence that this large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime and improves social welfare. We find the regulatory change to have reduced...

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Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime …-fighting effectiveness? To answer these questions, we construct a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. We find that … while IT adoption had substantial effects on a wide range of police organizational practices, it had, by itself, a …

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Macroeconomic Consequences of Terror: Theory and the Case of Israel

Eckstein, Zvi; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper analyses the effect of terror on the economy. Terror endangers life such that the value of the future relative to the present is reduced. Hence, due to a rise in terror activity, investment goes down, and in the long run income and consumption go down as well. Governments can offset...

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Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks

Hoppe, Eva I; Schmitz, Patrick W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The government wants a certain good or service to be provided. Should the required assets be publicly or privately owned or should a partnership be formed? Building on the incomplete contracting approach, we argue that the initially specified quantity of an ex ante describable basic good can...

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Electoral College, Popular Vote and Regional Information

Behm, Martina; Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We take up the discussion started by Condorcet on which voting system yields the highest probability that a good decision is taken. When regional information shocks are taken into account, an Electoral College system has advantages over simple majority vote under certain conditions: The...

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Separation of Powers and Accountability: Towards a Formal Approach to Comparative Politics

Persson, Torsten; Roland, Gérard; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

A political constitution is like an incomplete contract: it spells out a procedure for making decisions and for delegating power, without specifying the contents of those decisions. This creates a problem: the appointed policymaker could use this power for his own benefit against the interests...

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Resisting Migration: Wage Rigidity and Income Distribution

Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Like any trade activity, migration tends to generate gains to all parties involved - the migrants as well as the native-born population. With a mal-functioning labour market, however, migration will exacerbate the imperfections in the market. Consequently, it may lead to losses to the...

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The Limits of Career Concerns in Federalism: Evidence from China

Persson, Petra; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Performance-based promotion schemes in administrative hierarchies have limitations. Chinese provincial leaders, despite facing strong career concerns, make different policy decisions depending on their career backgrounds. Provincial party secretaries who rose from low to high positions within...

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