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Commodity booms, conflict, and organized crime : logics of violence in Indonesia's oil palm plantation economy

Kenny, Paul D.; Shrestha, Rashesh; Aspinall, Edward - 2020

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Institutional mistrust, instrumental trust, and the privatization of law : the mafia as a territorial ruler

Champeyrache, Clotilde - In: Journal of economic issues 56 (2022) 4, pp. 945-958

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Mafia origins, land distribution, and crop diversification

Battisti, Michele; Bernardo, Giovanni; Kourtellos, Andros; … - 2023 - This draft: April 22, 2023

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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 …

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Mafia Inc.: When godfathers become entrepreneurs

Le Moglie, Marco; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2017

plagued by a conspicuous presence of mafia-type organizations. By using the exogenous credit contraction imposed by the 2007 …

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Law Enforcement, Municipal Budgets and Spillover Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Italy

Galletta, Sergio - 2016

with mafia with a commission of non-elected administrators. Fixed effects model estimates that focus on a sample of …

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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 social consequences of organized crime in Italy

Rolla, Pierfrancesco; Justino, Patricia - 2022

Organized crime affects security, development, and democracy worldwide, but not much is known about its social consequences. We study how exposure to the presence of organized crime groups shapes the social capital of Italian citizens, including political participation, civic engagement, and...

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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime

Meier, Stephan; Pierce, Lamar; Vaccaro, Antonino - 2014

with high Mafia involvement exhibit lower generalized trust and trustworthiness, but higher in-group favoritism, with …

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Origins of the Sicilian mafia: The market for lemons

Dimico, Arcangelo; Isopi, Alessia; Olsson, Ola - 2012

Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the origins of the Sicilian mafia have remained a largely unresolved …, we develop an argument for a market structure-hypothesis, contending that mafia arose in towns where firms made unusually … others. We argue that the mafia arose out of the need to protect citrus production from predation by thieves. Using the …

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