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Rough set methodology in meta-analysis: a comparative and exploratory analysis
Rupp, Thomas - 2005
We study the applicability of the pattern recognition methodology rough set data analysis (RSDA) in the field of meta analysis. We give a summary of the mathematical and statistical background and then proceed to an application of the theory to a meta analysis of empirical studies dealing with...
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Rough set methodology in meta-analysis - a comparative and exploratory analysis
Rupp, Thomas - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2005
We study the applicability of the pattern recognition methodology "rough set data analysis" (RSDA) in the field of meta analysis. We give a summary of the mathematical and statistical background and then proceed to an application of the theory to a meta analysis of empirical studies dealing with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464649
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Meta Analysis of Empirical Deterrence Studies: an explorative contest
Rupp, Thomas - Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2006
A sample of 200 studies empirically analyzing deterrence in some way is evaluated. Various methods of data mining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464707
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Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty: Facts or Ideology
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2011
support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003406
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Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty: Facts or Ideology?
Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2011
support the deterrence hypothesis. Moreover, we also point to some puzzles which have not been satisfactorily solved so far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020796
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Another Look at the Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty
Choe, Jongmook - In: Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics I (2010) 1, pp. 12-15
There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of death penalty. Instead of using execution rate, this paper uses dummy variables to categorize states into different groups and to compare the group mean homicide rates. With US state-level panel data...
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Deterrence by Imperfect Sanctions – A Public Good Experiment
Engel, Christoph - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2013
Sanctions are often so weak that a money maximizing individual would not be deterred. In this paper I show that they may nonetheless serve a forward looking purpose if sufficiently many individuals are averse against advantageous inequity. Using the Fehr/Schmidt model (QJE 1999) I define three...
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Crime, Deterrence, and Democracy
Dusek, Libor - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2005
We provide new evidence on the effect of deterrence on crime using the experience of a transition country (the Czech … of deterrence and sharp increases in crime rates. We test whether deterrence, rather than other factors, was responsible … for the post-1989 growth in crime on a panel dataset of Czech regions. The results show significant deterrence effects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842877
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Facts or Ideology: What Determines the Results of Econometric Estimates of the Deterrence Effect of Death Penalty?
Gerritzen, Berit C.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
deterrence studies published between 1975 and 2011. The profession of the author turns out to be the only statistically sig …- nificant explanatory variable: Economists claim significantly more often to have found a sig- nificant deterrence effect than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096306
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The Law and Economics of Private Prosecutions in Industrial Revolution England
Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
able to emerge to internalize the externalities that caused the private system to generate too little deterrence. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109312