Private individuals and entities invest in a wide variety of market-provisioned self-protection devices or services to mitigate their probability of victimization to crime. However, evaluating the effect of such private security measures remains understudied in the economics of crime literature....

Private protection and public policing interact in the fight against property crime. While property owners tailor their level of private protection to their property value, the level of public policing is chosen by elected officials for society as a whole. When the median voter's property is...

This study investigates the relation between lawsuit attributes that support an inference of fraud and the probability and the size of securities lawsuit settlement. A sample of 607 securities lawsuits between 1996 and 2006 is used in the analysis of the probability of settlement and a subsample...