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Title: Fighting Mobile Crime

Author(s): Rosario Crinò, Giovanni Immordino and Salvatore Piccolo

Publication Date: January 2019

Keyword(s): crime, enforcement, Extradition, Fleeing and migration

Programme Area(s): Public Economics

Abstract: Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having committed a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement: insourcing foreign criminals is more costly than paying the extradition cost. When extradition is sufficiently costly, instead, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country whose law they infringed. The fear of paying the extradition cost enables the countries coordinating on the efficient outcome.

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Crinò, R, Immordino, G and Piccolo, S. 2019. 'Fighting Mobile Crime'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13424