, even if some enterprises could suffer less directly from the pervasiveness of organized crime, its overall effects on the …

We examine whether organized crime affects firms’ performance (defined using Total Factor Productivity growth) both … firms over the period 2010–2013. The results highlight the negative direct effects of organized crime on firms’ productivity … crime, and the negative moderation effect of organized crime on productivity growth is greater for smaller than for larger …

Corruption and informality are issues which have attracted a great amount of empirical research, since they are …. In this context, the objective of this investigation is to assess the impacts of corruption and informality on economic …. Subsequently, a simulation analysis is conducted to quantify the impacts of increases in corruption and informality on growth and …