Can Easing Concealed Carry Deter Crime?*

Does the Right to Carry Concealed Handguns Deter Countable Crimes? Only a Count Analysis Can Say*

An analysis of the effects of right-to-carry laws on crime requires particular distributional and structural considerations. First, because of the count nature of crime data and the low number of expected instances per observation in the most appropriate data, least-squares methods yield unreliable estimates. Second, use of a single dummy variable as a measure of the nationwide effect of right-...

Can Flies Carry Cholera?

The meteorological and sanitary conditions which favor the outbreak and progress of cholera have in many ways a similar influence in fostering and spreading flies. The peculiarities with regard to localisation and movement which have been recorded in some epidemics of cholera are, to my mind, explicable only by assuming the presence in the air of some animal capable of purposive movements and c...

Can import tariffs deter outward FDI ?

In this paper we analyze a country’s optimal trade policy when its labor market is unionized and firms are footloose. We show that an important objective for governments to use import protection is to prevent their domestic multinationals to go to a non-unionized location abroad and to serve their country from a distance. A domestic government will set a positive tariff to dissuade its multinat...

How Can We Deter Cyber Terrorism?

Jian Hua1 and Sanjay Bapna2 1School of Business and Public Administration, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., USA 2Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ABSTRACT In order to deter cyber terrorism, it is important to identify the terrorists, since punishment may not deter them. The identification probability relies heavily on tracking cyber terrorists. However,...

Can Police Prevent Crime?