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The effect of organized crime on public funds

Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - Banca d'Italia - 2013

the dependent variable. Organized crime is also found to cause episodes of corruption in the public administration. A …

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Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2013

amount of public funds. Mafia is also found to lead to episodes of corruption in the public administration sector. A series …

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THE EFFECT OF MAFIA ON PUBLIC TRANSFERS

Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2012

amount of public funds to businesses. Mafia is also found to lead to episodes of corruption in the public administration …

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The effect of mafia on public transfers

Barone, Guglielmo; Narciso, Gaia - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2011

Organized crime is a worldwide, widespread phenomenon, which affects developing as well as developed countries, and entails deep economic and social consequences. The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of organized crime activities. By using an innovative data set on Sicilian...

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The economic costs of organized crime: evidence from southern Italy

Pinotti, Paolo - Banca d'Italia - 2012

I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organized crime. The synthetic control is a weighted average of other...

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The macroeconomic impact of organized crime: a neo-Kaleckian perspective

Capuano, Carlo; Purificato, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The paper analyzes how organized crime aﬀects the economy through its impact on the eﬀective demand, following the Neo-Kaleckian approach. From this perspective, the presence of organized crime, on the one hand, tends to reduce the eﬀective demand draining resources through extortion,...

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics … and performance of firms, we find that: i) corruption reduces FDI inflows and attracts lower quality investment in terms … kickbacks, while paying a lower overall bribe burden than domestic firms; iii) FDI firms undertake those forms of corruption …

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Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2004

Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...

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