Search Results - subject_exact:"Organized crime"

(I)llicit chains : some new hypotheses regarding a changing global cocaine market

Lien, Nicolas; Feltran, Gabriel de Santis - 2025

International cocaine trafficking from South America has increased significantly over the past decade. Based on mixed-methods research, we hypothesize that this change has been driven primarily by the globalization of its logistics, which has led to relevant technical and political changes along...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015437911

An unholy alliance : the relationship between organized crime and corruption in Italy

Chiariello, Valentina; Dincer, Oguzhan - 2026

We investigate the long-run relationship between organized crime and corruption using data from 20 Italian regions over 30 years. As Rose-Ackerman and Palifka (2018) argue, corruption and organized crime often go together. Our study contributes to the literature in several ways in terms of...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015596747

Organized crime, hidden pollution, and long-run health costs

Cipullo, Davide; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2026

We study the long-run health effects of illegal toxic waste disposal conducted by organized crime in Italy. We exploit quasi-random variation in historical wind direction around contaminated sites combined with a difference-in-differences design. Using administrative data on cancer deaths...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015639061

Organized crime, corruption, and economic growth

Fioroni, Tamara; Lavezzi, Andrea Mario; Trovato, Giovanni - 2025

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015399188

Show one more version 1

Organized crime, corruption and economic growth

Fioroni, Tamara; Lavezzi, Andrea Mario; Trovato, Giovanni - 2023

Book / Working Paper

Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2026

Organized crime groups (OCGs) are often thought to infiltrate firms to benefit from or support criminal activities, such as corruption, false invoicing, and the provision of illicit goods. We show that much of infiltration-especially among large firms-serves a different purpose: firms are...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015667074

Show 4 more versions 4

Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

Book / Working Paper

Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

Book / Working Paper

Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

Book / Working Paper

Mafias and firms

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; De Simoni, Marco; Guiso, Luigi; … - 2024

Book / Working Paper

Regulating the crypto-laundering chain : a comparative study of scam compounds and money mule mechanisms within criminal networks

Arnone, Gioia - 2026

This paper examines how scam compounds, money mules and crypto-assets operate as interdependent elements of contemporary money-laundering chains. It assesses whether existing anti-money laundering (AML) and crypto-asset regulatory frameworks are capable of disrupting these chains holistically,...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015640373

Political capture and bureaucratic behavior : evidence from mafia-infiltrated municipalities

Carreri, Maria; Cipullo, Davide; Le Moglie, Marco; … - 2026

Local governments promise democratic responsiveness but are also vulnerable to political capture by illicit actors. While existing research documents the political and economic consequences of capture, less is known about how bureaucrats respond when political leadership is captured - whether...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10016060574

Strategic choices in money laundering : smurfing, layering, and financial over-diversification

Contreras, Alfredo; Villa, Edgar - 2026

Money laundering enables criminal organizations to integrate illicit funds into the legal economy while evading detection, posing significant challenges for regulators and policymakers. We develop a formal framework to examine criminal organizations' choice between two money laundering methods....

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015643937

Iranian outsourcing of state political objectives to criminal actors

Shelley, Louise I. - 2026

States have long-used their own criminals to achieve political objectives. This phenomenon is being supplemented by a new modus operandi: the outsourcing of criminal activity to non-domestic crime groups in both Europe and the United States. This strategy, as this paper will reveal, has been...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015668032

Criminal correlates of extra-legal taxation : evidence from Brazil

Trudeau, Jessie; Becerra-Medina, David - 2026

Extra-legal taxation is one of many possible tools that organized criminal groups can use to exercise control over territory and populations. Yet the use of extra-legal taxation varies greatly: it is a daily occurrence in some criminally governed communities, and a rarity in others. Where are we...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10016064408

The geopolitics of organised crime : national cecurity threats and financial counteraction

Gara, Mario - 2026

Transnational criminal organisations (TCOs) either drive or are severely impacted by all global trends shaping the geopolitical landscape. The hybrid warfare that states are engaging in offers TCOs new opportunities to thrive as a result of geocriminality-that is, the strategic weaponisation of...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015668035

The risk of mafia infiltration in Italian municipalities : statistical and machine learning evidence from financial information

Iezzi, Stefano; Pauselli, Claudio - 2025

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015373149

Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis : evidence from the Covid-19 shock

Castelluccio, Marco; Rizzica, Lucia - 2025

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015561549

Show one more version 1

Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis : evidence from the Covid-19 shock

Castelluccio, Marco; Rizzica, Lucia - 2023

Book / Working Paper

Anti-Mafia police actions, criminal firms, and peer firm tax avoidance

Chircop, Justin; Fabrizi, Michele; Malaspina, Patrizia; … - 2023

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10014308315

The spatial economic impact of crime : evidence from the construction sector in Italian municipalities

Rizzo, Leonzio; Ferraresi, Massimiliano; Secomandi, Riccardo - 2023

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10014427305

The departed : Italian migration and the American mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015583792

Show 3 more versions 3

The departed : Italian migration and the American Mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

Book / Working Paper

The departed : Italian migration and the American Mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

Book / Working Paper

The departed : Italian migration and the American Mafia

Anelli, Massimo; Pinotti, Paolo; Porreca, Zachary - 2025

Book / Working Paper

Organized crime and banks : assessing the effects of anti-mafia police actions on lending

Buchetti, Bruno; Fabrizi, Michele; Ipino, Elisabetta; … - 2025

This study examines how dismantling Mafia-connected firms affects banks' lending practices. Using a unique dataset of 667 such firms and loan-level data from the European Central Bank, our analysis shows that anti-Mafia operations precede an increase in bank loans to businesses that operate in...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015416189

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

Calamunci, Francesca; Ferrante, Livio; Scebba, Rossana; … - 2023

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10014365013