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Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as … enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation based on the idea that justice can be subverted with sufficient expenditure … environment of significant inequality of wealth and political power. The switch to regulation can then be seen as an efficient …

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Economic Analysis of Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law

Shavell, Steven - 2022

This paper contains the chapters on public enforcement of law and on criminal law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003). By public law enforcement is meant the use of public law enforcement agents -- such as police, tax...

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Ghost-House Busters : The Electoral Response to a Large Anti Tax Evasion Program

Casaburi, Lorenzo - 2015

The incentives of political agents to enforce tax collection are key determinants of the levels of compliance. We study the electoral response to the Ghost Buildings program, a nationwide anti-tax evasion policy in Italy that used innovative monitoring technologies to target buildings hidden...

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Misallocation in the Market for Inputs : Enforcement and the Organization of Production

Boehm, Johannes - 2018

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with weaker enforcement. Specifically, we document that in...

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Tax Compliance and Enforcement

Slemrod, Joel - 2018

This paper reviews recent economic research in tax compliance and enforcement. After briefly laying out the economics of tax evasion, it focuses on recent empirical contributions. It first discusses what methodologies and data have facilitated these contributions, and then presents critical...

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Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy : Evidence from the Assassination of President Mckinley

Baker, Richard B. - 2018

We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in American history occurred, and his administration did...

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Deterring Illegal Entry : Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

Over 2008 to 2012, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted new sanctions on migrants apprehended attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Using administrative records on apprehensions of Mexican nationals that include fingerprint-based IDs and other details, we detect if an apprehended migrant is subject...

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Ordered Leniency : An Experimental Study of Law Enforcement with Self-Reporting

Landeo, Claudia - 2018

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an enforcement agency to detect and deter harmful short-term activities committed by groups of injurers. With ordered-leniency policies, early cooperators receive reduced sanctions. We replicate the strategic...

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Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency

Landeo, Claudia - 2018

This paper studies the design of enforcement policies to detect and deter harmful short-term activities committed by groups of injurers. With an ordered-leniency policy, the degree of leniency granted to an injurer who self-reports depends on his or her position in the self-reporting queue. By...

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Vanished Classmates : The Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement on Student Enrollment

Dee, Thomas S. - 2018

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the federal law-enforcement agency with primary responsibility for enforcing immigration laws within the U.S. However, for over a decade, ICE has formed partnerships that also allow local police to enforce immigration law (i.e., identifying and...

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