capacity installed. Judicial inquiries have uncovered several episodes of involvement of Mafia families in the rich wind power … municipality is higher if in the local territory there is a mafia family, whereas wind speed is (surprisingly) not significant … investment. Hence the episodes unveiled by courts are paralleled by a wider correlation of mafia family entrenchment in a …

with mafia with a commission of non-elected administrators. Fixed effects model estimates that focus on a sample of …

We use a unique and unexplored dataset to investigate the determinants and effects of mafia firms in Italy. Mafia may … to expand mafia firms. In particular, they use the latter more to build up their reputation in new established regions …. Mafia firms hamper entrepreneurial activity but they can have beneficial effects on unemployment if mafia firms add to not …

plagued by a conspicuous presence of mafia-type organizations. By using the exogenous credit contraction imposed by the 2007 …