dc.contributor.author Eeckhout, Jan
dc.contributor.author Persico, Nicola
dc.contributor.author Todd, Petra
dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Comunicació
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-05T01:54:21Z
dc.date.available 2012-07-05T01:54:21Z
dc.date.issued 2011
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/16064
dc.description.abstract An incentives based theory of policing is developed which can explain the phenomenon of random “crackdowns,” i.e., intermittent periods of high interdiction/surveillance. For a variety of police objective functions, random crackdowns can be part of the optimal monitoring strategy. We demonstrate support for implications of the crackdown theory using traffic data gathered by the Belgian Police Department and use the model to estimate the deterrence effect of additional resources spent on speeding interdiction.
dc.language.iso eng
dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri (c) 2010 American Economic Association. Can be found online at: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.100.3.1104
dc.subject.other Crackdowns
dc.subject.other 0 - Generalitats
dc.title A Theory of Optimal Random Crackdowns
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.date.modified 2012-07-04T10:46:52Z

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