The empirical literature testing the economic theory of crime has extensively studied the relative importance of the …

effective device for maximizing this likelihood, as organized crime may corrupt financial institutions - both regulators and … regulated firms - in order to prevent crime detection (accelerator effect). The paper proposes a novel theoretical framework for …

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … identify causal effects, we leverage time-series and cross-sectional variation in crime register data, comparing the number of … holidays. Our main finding shows that violent crime increases by 21.5 percent on a match day. In total, professional football …

penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US … inmates with proxies for maximum punishment and monitoring costs across US states over 50 years. Consistent with the theory of …

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 …

regular citizens do not become more dishonest in response to crime-related reminders. Moreover, our experimental measure of …

the school schedule on the dynamics of youth crime. When school is not in session, students commit more property offences …

administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated …