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Crime: Economics of, the Standard Approach

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

    Paolo Buonanno

  2. Department of Economics, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia

    Juan F. Vargas

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  1. Paolo Buonanno
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  2. Juan F. Vargas
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Correspondence to Paolo Buonanno or Juan F. Vargas .

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  1. MRE and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Faculté d’Economie, Université de Montpellier and LAMETA-UMR CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  3. DiGSPES, University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

  4. IEL, Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Buonanno, P., Vargas, J.F. (2019). Crime: Economics of, the Standard Approach. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_743

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