We survey the literature on search-theoretic models of the labor market. We show how this
approach addresses many issues, including the following: Why do workers sometimes …

There is a need to question the main socioeconomic, political, and cultural aspects of crime
rates in a cross-country context. In this context, Dumitrescu and Hurlin's (2012) Granger …

We incorporate appropriation activities (social conflict) into canonical models of trade and
study how economic shocks and policies affect the intensity of conflict. We show that not all …

We investigate the effects of civic norms and associational networks on crime rates. Civic
norms may attach guilt and shame to criminal behavior, thus increasing its opportunity cost …

Delinquents compete with each other in criminal activities but benefit from being friends with
other criminals by learning and acquiring proper know‐how on the crime business. We study …

This article studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We
present a social network model of peer effects with ex ante heterogeneous agents and show …

How can power over others be transformed to'power with'? It is possible to transform many
institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from …

Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Each delinquent decides in a non-
cooperative way how much delinquency effort he will exert. We characterize the Nash …

Economic inequality has long been considered an important determinant of crime. Existing
evidence, however, is mostly based on inadequately aggregated data sets, making its …

In this article we analyze recent trends in aggregate property crime rates in the United
States. We propose a dynamic equilibrium model that guides our quantitative investigation …