Behavioral Economics of Crime Rates and Punishment Levels

Empirical studies have shown, paradoxically, that increasing the probability of apprehension can correlate with an increase in the total number of criminal actions. To examine this phenomenon, we develop a dynamic model of “personal rules” in which forgetfulness and hyperbolic discounting together c...

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Main Authors: Chiba, Saori, Leong, Kaiwen
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81339
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40843
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English