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This paper modifies a standard model of law enforcement to allow for learning by doing. We incorporate the process of … enforcement learning by assuming that the agency’s current marginal cost is a decreasing function of its past experience of … ability of future apprehension at a lower marginal cost. We focus on the impact of enforcement learning on optimal compliance …
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We analyze the tax evasion problem with social interaction among the taxpayers. If the authority commits to a fixed auditing probability, a positive share of cheating is obtained in equilibrium. This stands in contrast to the existing literature, which yields full compliance of audited taxpayers...
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Purpose-The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach-The empirical...
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9-ending prices are a dominant feature of many retail settings, which according to the existing literature, is because consumers perceive them as being relatively low. Are 9-ending prices really lower than comparable non 9-ending prices? Surprisingly, the empirical evidence on this question is...
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This study investigates the relationship between social media and homicide in a cross section of 148 countries for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Tobit and Quantile regressions. The findings from Ordinary Least Squares and Tobit regressions show a...
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Nearly $2 trillion of illegally trafficked goods flow across international borders every year, generating violence and other social costs along the way. Due to the absence of legal contracts and the challenge of finding trading partners in an illegal market, traffickers may rely on co-ethnic...
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Moving-violation traffic stops are pretextual when motivated by suspicion of unrelated crimes. Despite concerns that they are subject to racial bias, and recent reforms hoping to curb the practice; we lack empirical evidence to inform our understanding of pretextual stops. Using a decade's worth...
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We investigate the roles of individual characteristics and punishment progressivity on crime. Our analysis reconciles low crime rates with light punishments in self-governed communities (Ostrom, 1990), using formal punishments to deter crime (Becker, 1968). We use a novel trial dataset on water...
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We explore a power relationship between a ‘corrupt’ politician and a political worker where the politician can order an illegal corrupt effort to be performed by the worker. Using a moral hazard structure we show that when the politician’s power is sufficiently high the politician...
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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for a third of the countries on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list. In the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) Ranking and Risk Assessment Tool, the region performed poorly in terms of resilience to ML/TF, with more than 60% of...
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