Doing Business Below the Line: Screening, Mafias and Public Funds

• In Event: Political Economy of Contestation, Violent Conflict, and Civil War

Brief Overview

Evaluation of a policy aimed at screening mafia-related companies out public funding. A group of firms strategically avoids detection by sorting just below the threshold of the law. We study the characteristics of these companies and of their owners.

Authors

• Gemma Dipoppa, University of Pennsylvania

• Gianmarco Daniele, Bocconi University