Finders keepers: Forfeiture laws, policing incentives, and local budgets

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 2113-2136

  Baicker, Katherine ^a,b   Jacobson, Mireille ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset forfeiture; Local government budgets; Police incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648993961     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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