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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat the financing of terrorism. -- Financial flows of terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949487
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Security, trade, and political violence
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Di Maio, Michele - 2017
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670900
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Terrorism, political opinions, and election outcomes : evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - 2020
received by nationalistic parties in Europe. These results are relevant to the ongoing debate among academics over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197466
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Understanding the development of fundamentalism
Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002181612
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Trust and in-group favoritism in a culture of crime
Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - 2014
We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can undermine current institutions, even in religiously and ethnically homogeneous populations. Using trust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355860
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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The economic impact of organized crime infiltration in the legal economy : evidence from the judicial administration of organized crime firms
Calamunci, Francesca; Drago, Francesco - 2020
same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the spillover effects of a law providing the … administration in their market (in the same province and industry). The empirical design allows us to control for confounding effects … at the firm, market, and year levels. The results show that there is a large, positive spillover from the enforcement law …
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Mafias and firms
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024
Infiltration of the legal economy by criminal organizations (OCGs) is potentially significant, though how pervasive remains uncertain. Beyond the volume, the motives driving infiltration are of serious policy concern. We introduce a conceptual framework to differentiate between OCGs' motives for...
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The value of connections : evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - 2014
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects on gangsters' economic status. Lacking information on criminal proceeds, I measure economic status...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239272
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Cooperation, punishment and organized crime : a lab-in-the-field experiment in Southern Italy
Nese, Annamaria; O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2016
This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458326