 I costi della criminalità organizzata nel settore agroalimentare italianoMoneta e Credito, 2018, vol. 71, issue 281, 37-66 Abstract: From the 1990s the Italian agribusiness sector is threatened by a disturbing phenomenon: organized crime in the agribusiness sector.. In this paper we examine the relationship between eco-criminal pressure and consumer food and non-alcoholic drinks price index for the 20 Italian regions and 80 Italian provinces. At regional level, as a proxy for eco-mafia’s activities we build an ad hoc eco-criminal index using data from Legambiente. At the province level we use four variables: extortions, counterfeiting, contraband and woods fire. The analysis shows that the eco-mafia can consistently affect the whole agribusiness sector, causing an increase in food prices, especially in the South of the country. By contrast, in the Centre-North of Italy, money laundering seems to reduce food prices for consumers through the reinvestment of illicit proceeds in firms with strong cost advantages. Keywords: cost of crime; agro-mafia; money laundering; food prices (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:psl:moneta:2018:13 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Moneta e Credito is currently edited by Alessandro Roncaglia and Carlo D'Ippoliti More articles in Moneta e Credito from Economia civile |
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