Criminal Behavior: A Real Option Approach With an Application to Restricting Illegal Insider Trading |
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Authors: | Peter-Jan Engelen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Vredenburg 138, 3511 BG Utrecht, Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Traditionally, criminal behavior is analyzed within an expected utility framework. This paper offers an alternative model to analyze criminal behavior based on real option models. It is shown that all criminal decisions can be analyzed as real options, in a sense that they confer the possibility but not the obligation to commit a crime in the future. The criminal option model is a richer model compared to conventional economic models of crime, because it takes into account four additional variables. As such, the conventional economic analysis of crime is a special case of criminal option models. The criminal option model is then applied to the enforcement of illegal insider trading. Based on the six value-drivers of criminal options, an active management strategy can be developed for the criminal as well as for the legislator. |
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Keywords: | insider trading enforcement criminal behavior real options |
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