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An empirical analysis of organized crime, corruption and economic growth
In a companion study, Blackburn et al. (Econ Theory Bull, 2017), we have developed a theoretical framework for studying interactions between organized crime and corruption, with the view of examining the combined effects of these phenomena on economic growth. The analysis therein illustrates that organized crime has a negative effect on growth, but that the magnitude of the effect may be either enhanced or mitigated in the presence of corruption. In this paper we tackle the ambiguity produced by the coexistence of the two illicit activities with an empirical investigation using a panel of Italian regions for the period 1983–2009. We find that organized crime distorts growth less when it coexists with corruption and show our results to be robust to different specifications, measures of organized crime, and estimation techniques
The recto-anal inhibitory reflex: Abnormal response in diabetics suggests an intrinsic neuroenteropathy
Neurohumoral, peptidergic and biochemical responses to supine exercise in two groups with primary autonomic failure: Shy-Drager syndrome/multiple system atrophy and pure autonomic failure
Prevalence of anti-locus coeruleus immunoreactivity in CSF of patients with autonomic failure
Kidney involvement and associated risk factors in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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