Taxing guns vs. taxing crime: An application of the "market for offenses model"

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 670-689

  Ehrlich, Isaac ^a   Saito, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of crime; Gun control; Law enforcement; Market for offenses; Regulation; Self protection; Strategic reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958109392     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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