The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using different estimation methods for panel data. The...

Since the late Nineties, the Italian economic growth progressively decelerates. The slowdown affects, in particular, labour productivity, whose rates of growth are considerably lower than that recorded in the past. After 2000, Italy seems to be in for a phase of economic decline. Several studies...