Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label kidnapping. Show all posts

Showing posts with label kidnapping. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2022

Kidnapping and ransom in Nigeria

Paying ransom is a repugnant transaction that looks different ex ante and ex post. In Nigeria, where kidnapping is rampant, the governmen...

Monday, August 10, 2020

Reputation among thieves: ransomware and kidnapping

Like everyone else, I occasionally get notifications of data breaches from organizations with which I have digital relations. Often the bre...

Monday, June 24, 2019

Kidnapping insurance

Preston McAfee points me to the following interesting article: The weird world of kidnapping insurance , by Jeff Spross "A private...

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Ransom as a (not so) repugnant transaction

The United States is revising some policies regarding dealing with Americans held hostage, e.g. in the middle east. The NY Times has the s...

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Kidney sales and trafficking

There have been a number of recent stories about criminal organ-trafficking rings around the world. Here's a long quote from the one th...

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Market for kidnapping

The Hostage Business "Few sectors have endured the economic downturn of recent years better than kidnapping. Confidence in big banks an...

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