Are "gangstas" peacocks? The handicap principle and illicit markets
Criminals who wear gang colors are acting in a surprisingly brazen way which must increase the probability of being caught and punished by the police. In our model this brazen behavior is a solution to an enforcement problem. The central idea is that less able criminals see lower gains from contin...
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University of Oxford
2011
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