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Resisting the extortion racket: an empirical analysis

2018

While the contributions on the organized crime and Mafia environments are many, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the firm’s decision to resist to extortion. Our case study is based on Addiopizzo, an NGO that, from 2004, invites firms to refuse requests from the local Mafia and to join a public list of “non-payers”. The research is based on a dataset obtained linking the current administrative archives maintained by the chambers of commerce and the list updated by the NGO. The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to gather sound data on the characteristics of the Addiopizzo joiners; second to model the probability to join Addiopizzo by a two-level logistic regression model. We …

Economics and EconometricEconomics and EconometricsEngineeringOperations researchmedia_common.quotation_subjectPopulation01 natural sciencesHuman capitalOrganized crime010104 statistics & probabilityMultilevel regression modelsExtortion; Multilevel regression models; Organized crime; Social mobilization; Business and International Management; Economics and Econometrics; LawRacketeering0502 economics and businessmedia_common.cataloged_instanceOrganised crime050207 economics0101 mathematicsBusiness and International ManagementSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaeducationEmpirical evidencemedia_commoneducation.field_of_studyDiscrete choiceExtortionbusiness.industry05 social sciencesMultilevel regression modelExtortionSocial mobilizationDemographic economicsPsychological resiliencebusinessLawEuropean Journal of Law and Economics
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