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Impulse Purchases, Gun Ownership and Homicides : Evidence from a Firearm Demand Shock

Koenig, Christoph - 2019

Do firearm purchase delay laws reduce aggregate homicide levels? Using quasi-experimental evidence from a 6-month countrywide gun demand shock starting in late 2012, we show that U.S. states with legislation preventing immediate handgun purchases experienced smaller increases in handgun sales....

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Impulse purchases, gun ownership and homicides : evidence from a firearm demand shock

Koenig, Christoph; Schindler, David - 2019

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Shopping on the Net : Legal Protection for Consumers

Tokeley, Kate - 2016

In this article the author outlines some difficulties facing the cyber-shopper. These include the practical difficulties of enforcement and redress which arise when a cyber-shopper purchases a defective product from an overseas supplier, or when misleading information is placed on the internet...

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Advertised Incentives for Participation in Daily Fantasy Sports Contests in 2015 and 2016 : Legal Classification and Consumer Implications

Holden, John T. - 2017

During the summer of 2015, daily fantasy sports (DFS) advertising in the United States became ubiquitous, with DraftKings and FanDuel embarking on an aggressive advertising campaign. One year later, those commercials all but disappeared from television and radio. In the United States, DFS...

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Three Golden Balls : Pawn Shops and Crime

McCannon, Bryan C.; Porreca, Zachary; Rodriguez, Zachary - 2022

We ask what the relationship is between pawn shops and crime. The dominant narrative is that pawn shops reduce the … transaction costs of crime and, consequently, promote it. We explore the alternative where pawn shops address the financial … distress of those in need, which reduces the incentive to engage in crime. We exploit two distinct policies affecting access to …

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Shop crime and deterrence : evidence on shoplifting among young people in the Youth Lifestyle Survey (YLS)

Saridakis, George - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 9 (2013) 2, pp. 197-237

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Crime, Punishment and the Halo Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility

Hong, Harrison - 2015

Three reasons are often cited for the value of corporate social responsibility: product quality signalling, delegated giving, and the halo effect. Previous tests cannot separate these channels because they focus on consumers, who value all three. We focus on prosecutors, who are only susceptible...

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Crime, Punishment and the Halo Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility

Hong, Harrison G. - 2015

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The Criminal Misuse of Cheque Cards and Credit Cards

Smith, A. T. H. - 2015

The purpose of this article is to examine the law governing the misuse of cheque cards and credit cards in the context of possible reform. The civil law in relation to credit cards and cheque cards is reviewed, although the civil law gives little guidance about the latter. The article focuses on...

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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway

Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...

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