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Origins of the Sicilian mafia : the market for lemons
Dimico, Arcangelo; Isopi, Alessia; Olsson, Ola - 2012
original data from a parliamentary inquiry in 1881-86 on all towns in Sicily, we show that mafia presence is strongly related … and a broadening of property rights as the main reason for the emergence of mafia protection. …Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the origins of the Sicilian mafia have remained a largely unresolved …
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Origins of the Sicilian mafia: The market for lemons
Dimico, Arcangelo; Isopi, Alessia; Olsson, Ola - 2012
original data from a parliamentary inquiry in 1881-86 on all towns in Sicily, we show that mafia presence is strongly related … and a broadening of property rights as the main reason for the emergence of mafia protection. …Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the origins of the Sicilian mafia have remained a largely unresolved …
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The Dominant Power Abuse and State Aid in European Union
FLOREANU, Cosmin - In: Finante - provocarile viitorului (Finance - Challenges … 1 (2014) 16, pp. 182-189
The abuse of dominant power and State aid are two forms of anti-competitive policies regulated by the European Commission in the spirit of the Treaty on European Union functioning, Lisbon, 2007. They have adverse effects on the development of economic activity, distorting competition, favouring...
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The business of piracy in Somalia
Percy, Sarah; Shortland, Anja - 2011 - Updated version
This article argues that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to control Somali piracy for four reasons. First, Somali piracy is a land-based problem and naval control mechanisms are not changing the incentives for pirates. Second, improving Somalia's anarchic political situation will not...
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Priorità allo sviluppo civile
Suppa, Alberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The mafia business has spread out its interest towards new sectors, from tourism to large-scale retail trade and public … services, like wastes, producing an income estimated around 6% of italian GPA. Moreover, the Mafia presence in the economic …, tha autor deals with the issue of the alterations caused by mafia criminality on market functioning. …
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Political Connections and Debt Benefits of Firms in India
Chahal, Rishman - 2018
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Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting : rules versus discretionary budgets
Mookherjee, Dilip; Nath, Anusha - 2021
Past research has provided evidence of clientelistic politics in delivery of programme benefits by local governments, or gram panchayats (GPs), and manipulation of GP programme budgets by legislators and elected officials at upper tiers in West Bengal, India. Using household panel survey data...
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The institutional origins of statek-society relations
Sabry, Mohamed Ismail - In: Fulbright review of economics and policy 2 (2022) 2, pp. 161-183
Purpose: This paper investigates the factors responsible for the emergence of different arrangements of state-society relations. Being concerned with the relations related to the industrial sector, this study focuses more on state-business-labor relations (SBLRs), especially on power dynamics...
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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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Redistribution and the Political Support of Free Entry Policy in the Schumpeterian Model with Heterogenous Agents
Veselov, Dmitriy - 2013
We consider the problem of finding sufficient conditions for political support of liberal, growth-enhancing policy in a quality-ladders model with heterogeneous agents differing in their endowment of wealth and skills. The policy set is two-dimensional: Agents vote for the level of...
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