TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrlich,Isaac
AU  - Saito,Tetsuya
TI  - Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime:  An Application of the “Market for Offenses Model”
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16009
PY  - 2010
Y2  - May 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16009
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16009.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Isaac Ehrlich
415 Fronczak Hall
State University of New York at Buffalo
and Center for Human Capital
Box 601520
Buffalo, NY 14260-1520
Tel: 716/645-2121ext 421
Fax: 716/645- 2127
E-Mail: mgtehrl@buffalo.edu

Tetsuya Saito
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
E-Mail: tsaito5@buffalo.edu
AB  - The interaction between offenders and potential victims has so far received relatively little attention in the literature on the economics of crime. The main objective of this paper is twofold: to extend the “market for offenses model” to deal with both “product” and “factor” markets, and to apply it to the case where guns are used for crime commission by offenders and for self-protection by potential victims. Our analysis offers new insights about the association between crime and guns and the limits it imposes on the efficacy of law enforcement and regulatory policies aimed to control both crime and guns.
ER  -