Crime and punishment: Further results


Autoria(s): Garoupa, Nuno
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

15/09/2005

Resumo

I consider a general specification of criminals' objective functionand argue that, when the general non-expected utility theory issubstituted for the traditional expected utility theory, thehigh-fine-low-probability result (Becker, 1968) only holds underspecific and strong restrictions.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10230/543

Idioma(s)

eng

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Palavras-Chave #Business Economics and Industrial Organization #certainty and severity of punishment #expected and non-expected utilities
Tipo

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