We estimate the effect of the homicides by the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, on housing prices in Naples. The study develops on a unique panel dataset at the administrative district level for the period 2002-2018 of geo-localized homicides involving innocent victims (denoted as IVH ), which are treated as exogenous shocks that negatively affect housing demand. We find that the occurrence of such homicides causes a decrease in housing prices in the range of 2.5 − 3.8 percentage points. This effect decreases with the distance from an IVH and over time. These results are robust to the utilization of different econometric specifications and to the considerations of possible confounding factors such as other types of textitCamorra homicides.

Shooting Down the Price: Evidence from Mafia Homicides and Housing Prices / Battisti, Michele; Bernardo, Giovanni; Mario Lavezzi, Andrea; Maggio, Giuseppe. - (2021).

Shooting Down the Price: Evidence from Mafia Homicides and Housing Prices

Giovanni Bernardo
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2021

Abstract

We estimate the effect of the homicides by the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, on housing prices in Naples. The study develops on a unique panel dataset at the administrative district level for the period 2002-2018 of geo-localized homicides involving innocent victims (denoted as IVH ), which are treated as exogenous shocks that negatively affect housing demand. We find that the occurrence of such homicides causes a decrease in housing prices in the range of 2.5 − 3.8 percentage points. This effect decreases with the distance from an IVH and over time. These results are robust to the utilization of different econometric specifications and to the considerations of possible confounding factors such as other types of textitCamorra homicides.
2021
Shooting Down the Price: Evidence from Mafia Homicides and Housing Prices / Battisti, Michele; Bernardo, Giovanni; Mario Lavezzi, Andrea; Maggio, Giuseppe. - (2021).
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