Land Reform, the Market for Protection, and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: Theory and Evidence

By O. Bandiera. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Entrepreneurship and second-best institutions: going beyond Baumol’s typology (2010, unknown): “As shown by Bandiera (2003) and by Milhaupt and West (2000), such services can stabilize and make the environment of productive activities more predictable when the state is incapable of upholding law and order.”
Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions: A Critical Review of Recent Research (2010, unknown): “When studying the land revenue system set up by the British power in India, Banerjee and Iyer (2005) note (and present empirical evidence) that areas where landlords collected the revenue had an elite class that had enjoyed a great deal of economic and political power.”
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, background): “(2017)), olives and vineyards (discussed by Bandiera (2003)), and Damiani’s measure of the strength of the Mafia in 1885.”
Land Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2008, unknown): “…(iii) ceiling laws that provided a basis for expropriating land held by any given owner in excess of a state-specific ceiling and 3 For recent contributions on land reform see (Boyce et al. 1998, Bandiera 2003, Bobrow-Strain 2004, Borras, Jr. 2005, Bradstock 2005, Eastwood et al. 2006).”
Governance Institutions and Economic Activity (2009, background): “Indeed, this was the origin of the Sicilian mafia (Oriana Bandiera 2003; Diego Gambetta 1993, chap.”
Organized crime and business subsidies: Where does the money go? (2015, background): “Skaperdas (2001) formalizes this idea, while Bandiera (2003) empirically supports it by showing that the mafia was more likely to be active in towns where land was more divided; Buonanno et al. (2012) document that areas characterized by sulphur availability were also more affected by the mafia.”
Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War (2015, background): “drug gang (2000); Gambetta’s economic analysis of the Sicilian mafia (1996); Pinotti’s (2012) study of the economic costs of organized crime in southern Italy; Bandiera (2003), Dimico et al.”