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Rules, discretion, and corruption in procurement : evidence from Italian government contracting

Decarolis, Francesco; Pinotti, Paolo; Vannutelli, Silvia; … - 2020 - This version: May 21, 2020

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement …, discretionary procedure auctions are associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of …

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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting

Decarolis, Francesco - 2020

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Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement : Evidence from Italian Government Contracting

Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond J.; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2021

for private gain. We study the relationship between discretion and corruption in Italian government procurement auctions …, using a confidential database of firms and procurement officials investigated for corruption by Italian enforcement … associated with corruption only when conducted with fewer than the formally required number of bidders or employing discretionary …

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Rules, discretion, and corruption in procurement : evidence from Italian government contracting

Decarolis, Francesco; Fisman, Raymond; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2019 - This version: December 18, 2019

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Rules, discretion, and corruption in procurement : evidence from Italian government contracting

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The Economic Costs of Organized Crime : Evidence from Southern Italy

Pinotti, Paolo - 2012

I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other...

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The economic costs of organized crime: evidence from southern Italy

Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012

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Legal status and the criminal activity of immigrants

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - 2014

We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved time-varying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the "new" and "candidate" member countries and 2)...

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Migration restrictions and criminal behavior: Evidence from a natural experiment

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - 2011

We estimate the causal effect of immigrants' legal status on criminal behavior exploiting exogenous variation in migration restrictions across nationalities driven by the last round of the European Union enlargement. Unique individual-level data on a collective clemency bill enacted in Italy...

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The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil

Britto, Diogo; Pinotti, Paolo; Sampaio, Breno - 2021

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on crime, exploiting unique individual-level data on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 period. We find that the probability of criminal prosecution increases on average by 23% for workers...

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