violence and economic activity, and also generates a proxy to measure the geographic concentration of police forces. Using … Brazil's violence is changing. Recent analyses highlight a trend of dispersion of violence such that homicide rates in urban … panel data across all 26 states from 1995 to 2011, we find evidence of a correlation between dispersion of violence and GDP …

US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy …

states. This problem is pressing for Georgia as well. In order to overcome the problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major global health crisis, the onset of which, and containment policies for, have … also led to a global economic crisis. The effects of the pandemic on the economies of various countries depended on their … the economy. In India, we find that the pandemic and ensuing lockdown policy led to various supply chain disruptions and …

violence has had a significant negative effect on investment and economic growth. -- violence ; crime ; growth ; Latin America …This paper analyses the repercussions of the high level of criminal violence in Latin America on the economy of the …