Local governments suspected of Mafia infiltration can be dismissed in Italy through an administrative act not …

government institutions. However, weak law enforcement alone cannot explain the cross-regional differences in mafia activity …. This chapter develops a feedback model of economic causes for the rise of the Sicilian mafia. Grounded in earlier economic … research, the model incorporates causal relationships between the mafia’s activities, predation, law enforcement, and the …

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 …

Public policies in the last 20 years have promoted in Italy the investment in renewable energy sources within the … capacity installed. Judicial inquiries have uncovered several episodes of involvement of Mafia families in the rich wind power … municipality is higher if in the local territory there is a mafia family, whereas wind speed is (surprisingly) not significant …