Institutional Requirements for Effective Imposition of Fines

Anne Morrison Piehl, Geoffrey Williams

NBER Working Paper No. 16476
Issued in October 2010

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This paper was prepared for the National Bureau of Economic Research conference "Economical Crime Control" in Berkeley, CA January 15-16, 2010. For helpful comments, thanks to Phillip Cook, Colin Campbell, the University of Michigan law and economics workshop, and conference participants. We also thank members of the National Center for State Courts' COURT2COURT listserv. Any errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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