This paper proposes a new identification strategy to estimate the causal impact of illicit drug markets on violence … municipalities that we use as an instrument to uncover the causal effect of illegal cocaine markets on violence. We find that a 10 … violence as different armed groups fight each other, the government and the civil population for their control and extraction …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico …, I show that violence has a significant negative impact on plant output, product scope, employment, and capacity …

in violence and crime, interiorized the warrior ethos or violent practices, becoming their own executioners by killing …

Mexico has experienced a dramatic increase in violence during the last decade. This increase has been associated with …

Puzzled about why and how coca-growing areas in Bolivia do not have the same levels of violence and criminality … experienced in their communities, eight peasant leaders from various coca-growing areas of Colombia joined a study tour to … interactions with both state and market structures appear as a key factor in mitigating violence and criminal activity. Second …

drug traffickers, namely their strategies and use of violence by analyzing the development of maritime trade and the …

high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …