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Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime: An Application of the "Market for Offenses Model" / Isaac Ehrlich, Tetsuya Saito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehrlich, Isaac.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16009.
- NBER working paper series no. w16009
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the "market for offenses model" to deal with both "product" and "factor" markets, and to apply it to the case where guns are used for crime commission by offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and guns and the limits it imposes on the efficacy of law enforcement and regulatory policies aimed to control both crime and guns.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2010.
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