Regulating harmless activity to fight crime

DOI10.1007/S00712-013-0359-ZMaRDI QIDQ404993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe

Publication date 4 September 2014

Published in Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-013-0359-z

zbMATH Keywords

complementssubstituteslegal activityoptimal law enforcement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Decision theory (91B06) Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32) Mathematical economics (91B99)

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