UDADISIの2012年経済学論文ランキングから今日は(順番に従って)第5位の論文を紹介してみる(論文のタイトルは「The Economic Costs of Organized Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy」で、著者はボッコーニ大学のPaolo Pinotti)。 以下はその要旨。 I examine the post-war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their counterfactual economic performance in the absence of organize