The economic effects of mafia: Firm level evidence

L Mirenda, S Mocetti, L Rizzica - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We analyze the effects of Mafia infiltration in the legal economy. Combining information from
investigative records with panel data on firms' governance and balance sheets, we build an …

Organized crime, captured politicians, and the allocation of public resources

M Di Cataldo, N Mastrorocco - The Journal of Law, Economics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
What is the impact of collusion between members of criminal organizations and politicians
on local public finances, in contexts in which organized crime is well-rooted? This article …

Organized crime and firms: Evidence from antimafia enforcement actions

P Slutzky, S Zeume - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We exploit staggered municipality-level antimafia enforcement actions in Italy over the 1995–
2015 period to study how the presence of organized crime affects firms. Following …

How criminal organizations expand to strong states: Migrant exploitation and political brokerage in Northern Italy

G Dipoppa - 2021 - preprints.apsanet.org
The widespread presence of criminal organizations in strong states presents a theoretical
and empirical puzzle. How do criminal organizations—widely believed to thrive in weak …

Organized crime and corruption: what are the consequences for Italian Cohesion Policy investments?

R Arbolino, R Boffardi - Regional Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The paper evaluates the effect of illegal activities on Cohesion Policy implementation. This
issue is fundamental in Italy, where large delays in expenditure risk to undermine the growth …

La criminalità organizzata in Italia: un'analisi economica (Organized Crime in Italy: An Economic Analysis)

S Mocetti, L Rizzica - Bank of Italy Occasional Paper, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Italian Abstract: La criminalità organizzata condiziona lo sviluppo socio-economico
dei territori dove è radicata attraverso una molteplicità di canali. Analizzare tali effetti è …

Organized crime in Italy: An economic analysis

S Mocetti, L Rizzica - Italian Economic Journal, 2024 - Springer
Organized crime affects the socio-economic development of the areas in which it is rooted
through several channels. However, analysing these effects is difficult, largely because it is …

Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices

FM Calamunci, L Ferrante, R Scebba… - Journal of Regional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that the value of a house depends both on the physical characteristics and
on some features of the neighborhood in which it is located. If so, organized‐crime activities …

The impacts of anti-organized crime on asset prices: Evidence from China

Z Li, M Cheng - Economic Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
We explore how a crackdown on organized crime affects stock returns. We theorize that a
crackdown on organized crime is associated with both the governance effect and the …

[КНИГА][B] The real effects of'ndrangheta: firm-level evidence

L Mirenda, S Mocetti, L Rizzica - 2019 - avvisopubblico.it
We analyze the real-economy effects of organized crime infiltrations in legitimate
businesses. We focus on the case of the'ndrangheta, a large criminal organization that …