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Three Essays on Heterogeneous Workers in Imperfect Labour Markets

Manger, Christian - 2010

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Arbeiten, die unterschiedliche Auswirkungen von Arbeitsmarktunvollkommenheiten auf heterogene Arbeiter betrachten. Die erste Arbeit zeigt anhand eines spieltheoretischen Modells, dass lediglich Koordinations- und Informationsfriktionen...

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Developing a Practical Forecasting Screener for Domestic Violence Incidents

Berk, Richard A; He, Yan; Sorenson, Susan B - 2005

useful skill. More informed decisions by police officers in the field can follow. Although the same kinds of predictors are …

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Mileage, car ownership, experience of punishment avoidance and the risky driving of young drivers

Scott-Parker, Bridie; Watson, Barry C.; King, Mark J.; … - 2011

independent driving. Results: Most young drivers in Survey 2 reported owning a vehicle and paying attention to Police presence …, spent more hours each week driving, or avoided actual and anticipated Police presence were more likely to report risky … driving. These drivers were also more likely to report being detected by Police for a driving-related offence. The media …

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Time to burn: Modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function.

Prestemon, J.P.; Butry, D.T. - 2005

and poverty on arson, in ways expected from theory. All findings support an economic model of crime. …

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On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime

Friehe, Tim; Baumann, Florian - 2010

This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises when individuals can commit crimes both individually and as part of a collective. Our result is based on an interdependence between detection probabilities where detection of an...

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An empirical investigation of lending to small businesses

Min, Kyung-Seol - 2008

the credit rationing theory by Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) show that in the higher market interest rate period lenders …

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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons

Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993

"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...

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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...

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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Herr, Andrew - 1996

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …

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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis

Dudley, Dean - 1993

"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...

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