Crime Networks with Bargaining and Build Frictions

Bryan Engelhardt ()

No 813, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: How does the timing, targets and types of anti-crime policies affect a network when criminal retailers search sequentially for wholesalers and crime opportunities? Given the illicit nature of crime, I analyze a non-competitive market where players bargain over the surplus. In such a market, some anti-crime policies distort revenue sharing, reduce matching frictions and increase market activity or crime. As an application, the model provides a new perspective on why the U.S. cocaine market saw rising consumption after the introduction of the “War on Drugs.”

Keywords: crime; networks; search; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 K42 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gth, nep-law, nep-net and nep-soc
Date: 2008-09

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/economics/ReP ... dt_CrimeNetworks.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hcx:wpaper:0813

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Victor Matheson ().