03789ntm a22005177i 4500 000538229 CZ-PrVSE 20180616112014.0 m d cr n|||||||||| 180616s2018 xr fsbm 000 0 eng d NEZPRACOVANÝ IMPORT ABA006 cze ABA006 ABA006 rda Tkáčik, Marcel ISIS:93281 dis Výnosy ze spolupráce při páchání zločinu : Odhad produkční funkce zločinu a výnosů z rozsahu eng Returns from Cooperation in Criminal Activity : Estimating Crime Production Function and Returns to Scale Marcel Tkáčik 2018 ?? stran : digital, PDF soubor Vedoucí práce: Libor Dušek Diplomová práce (Ing.)—Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze. Národohospodářská fakulta, 2018 Obsahuje bibliografii Textový (vysokoškolská kvalifikační práce) Rok obhajoby 2018 This study asks a simple question: how the damage produced in a criminal activity depends on the number of offenders cooperating? If offenders maximize damage as a proxy for utility of earnings acquired from given crime and they share the damage from criminal opportunity equally, we would expect that the total damage production function exhibits increasing or constant returns to scale. Using the rich-in-characteristics dataset of the Police of the Czech Republic covering the years 1995-2016, linear regression models of total damage, damage per person and probability of accusation are estimated while controlling for heterogeneity among criminal activities. The results reject both the possibility of non-decreasing returns to scale of crime production function and the possibility of compensation of decreasing damage per person by decreasing probability of accusation. Likely explanation is that the criminal opportunities for a single offender give the highest earnings because the earnings in pairs and groups are not shared equally; the profitability of these single-offender activities is then compensated by their skills requirements or generally their unavailability - otherwise everyone would prefer to work alone. These results are highly consistent with Levitt and Venkatesh (2000) who have also found that the criminals working alone are enjoying highest earnings comparing to those working in groups (gangs). This study also finds significant stylized facts and long-run trends of Czech criminals - their earnings are decreasing through years along with crime counts; they are also becoming older and lonelier - through their criminal career they tend to cooperate increasingly less. Způsob přístupu: Internet ekonomická analýza [obor dipl. práce] diplomové práce fd132022 czenas master's theses eczenas economics of crime returns to scale criminal cooperation sample-selection bias crime production function Dušek, Libor mzk2006322818 ths Potužák, Pavel vse20231203939 opn Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze. Národohospodářská fakulta kn20010709401 dgg https://insis.vse.cz/zp/62348/podrobnosti VŠKP v InSIS https://insis.vse.cz/zp/62348 Hlavní práce https://insis.vse.cz/zp/62348/posudek/vedouci Hodnocení vedoucího https://insis.vse.cz/zp/62348/posudek/oponent/57492 Oponentura https://insis.vse.cz/zp/62348/podrobnosti dc:identifier NEPOSILAT VSKP vse62348 180616 62348