Organised crime tightens its corrupting influence on politics through violent intimidation. Anti-crime measures that … increase the cost of corruption but not of the exercise of violence might accordingly lead mafia-style organizations to … retaliate by resorting to violence in lieu of bribery. On the other hand, this kind of anti-crime measure might also induce …

, the threat of being betrayed by their fellows may induce top-criminals to rely on corruption (to avoid sanctions). However …-rank ones. This domino effect can deter crime more than a policy based only on amnesties to low-rank criminals would: a bright …

Poland and Italy, comparing the amounts of planned and spent funds in the analyzed period. The main method is the statistical …

traces in the “illegal triangle”, that is organized crime, corruption, and evasion, one of the main reasons for the gap … show that corruption and organized crime do not follow the classic dichotomy South/North.The use of dynamic panel data …The central theme of the paper is based on a report by the former Director of the Bank of Italy Fabio Panetta who …

enforcers - on sequential, bilateral, illegal transactions, such as corruption, manager-auditor collusion, or drug deals. It is …