Chiarotti, Edoardo; Monnet, Nathalie - 2019 - Preliminary Version February 2019
In this paper, we study empirically how a policy targeting the cash-funding system of armed groups affects criminal activities, focusing on the 2016 Indian Banknote Demonetization as a natural experiment. We take advantage of a unique dataset on daily surrenders of the Maoist insurgents in India...