The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …