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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
We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the spillover effects of a law providing the judicial administration of organized crime firms through...
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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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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...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239272
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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 … with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …
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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...
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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
In this paper the financial means of international (mostly Islamistic) terror organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of...
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Cross-border spillover : US gun laws and violence in Mexico
Dube, Arindrajit; Dube, Oeindrila; García-Ponce, Omar - 2012
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New...
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Sicilian sulphur and mafia: resources, working conditions and the practice of violence
Ciccarelli, Carlo; Dalmazzo, Alberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021
This paper reconsiders the nexus between the abundance of resources and the origins of Sicilian mafia by exploiting a … the Royal Corps of Mining Engineers at the municipal level. We find that the impact of local production on mafia was … with lower incidence of mafia. Taken together, our findings suggest that larger lodes encouraged better and more orderly …
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The political cost of lockdown's enforcement
Fazio, Andrea; Reggiani, Tommaso; Sabatini, Fabio - 2021
' propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. Approval for the government's management of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418438