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Crinò, Rosario - 2019

Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in … their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …

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Financial Crime and Punishment : A Meta-Analysis

Batz, Laure de; Kočenda, Evžen - 2023

We provide the first quantitative synthesis of the literature on how financial markets react to the disclosure of financial crimes committed by listed firms. While consensus expects negative stock price returns, the exact size of the effect is far from clear. We survey 111 studies published over...

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Deterrence or Backlash? Arrests and the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023

, arrest increases the probability an offender is charged with a crime. Our findings argue against recent calls for a …

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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality : Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition

Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles DH; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...

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Do surveillance cameras affect unruly behavior?: a close look at grandstands

Priks, Mikael - 2008

This paper studies how surveillance cameras affect unruly spectator behaviour in the highest Swedish soccer league. Swedish stadiums introduced surveillance cameras at different points in time during the years 2000 and 2001. I exploit the exogenous variation that occurred due to differences...

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Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities : The Case of Fatal Road Crashes

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2022

In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of vehicle collisions in Britain and a range of quasi-experimental modeling approaches, we do not...

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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking

Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2021

Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of 16 on teenage drinking behavior and morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal...

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None for the Road? Stricter Drink Driving Laws and Road Accidents

Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021

Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....

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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

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Organized crime and foreign direct investment: the Italian case

Daniele, Vittorio; Marani, Ugo - 2008

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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