The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

To what extent does crime follow the pattern of potential gains to illegal activity? This article presents evidence on how criminals respond to this key incentive by reporting crime-price elasticities estimated from a comprehensive crime dataset containing detailed information on stolen items for Lo...

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Volume:	86
Main Author:	Draca, Mirk Koutmeridis, Theodore Machin, Stephen
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	OXFORD OXFORD UNIV PRESS 01.05.2019 Oxford University Press
published in:	The Review of economic studies Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 1228 - 1257
ORCID:	0000-0003-3381-0176
Data of publication:	2019-05-01
ISSN:	0034-6527 1467-937X
EISSN:	1467-937X
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Dewey Decimal Classification:	330
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Crime; goods prices; metal crime; commodity prices commodity prices; crime; goods prices; metal crime commodity prices crime metal crime Crime, goods prices, metal crime, commodity prices HC Economic History and Conditions HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology goods prices RATES Goods prices Metal crime Crime DETERRENCE REDUCE CRIME Commodity prices THEFT UNEMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index – 2019 Web of Science ECONIS CrossRef OpenAIRE OpenAIRE (Open Access) Database information Databases - DBIS