Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211180 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 021.2019
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We use a unique and unexplored dataset to investigate the determinants and effects of mafia firms in Italy. Mafia may use several tools to expand its firms. However, in this paper, we show that they prefer political corruption to violence to expand mafia firms. In particular, they use the latter more to build up their reputation in new established regions. Mafia firms hamper entrepreneurial activity but they can have beneficial effects on unemployment if mafia firms add to not substitute current economic activities. Policy makers should take account of this twofold effects of mafia firms.
Subjects: 
Organized Crime
Mafia Firm
Mafia and Development
JEL: 
D02
K14
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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