The economics of organized crime 

 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University,  1995 
 - 301 p. 
<br/><br/> 1 - Introduction  1 - Overview  2 - Alternative views on the nature of organised crime  3 - Theories of the state and criminal organisations  4 - The activities of organised crime  5 - Problems in normative analysis  6 - Alternative deterrence policies  7 - Conclusions  Part I - Theories of the state and the origin of criminal organisations  2 - Organised crime, mafia and governments  1 - Introduction  2 - Why mafias develop  3 - The american and sicilian mafias and the business firm  4 - Transaction cost analysis and the Sicilian mafia  5 - Public policy implications and further research  3 - Gangs as primitive states  1 - Introduction  2 - Origins in anarchy  3 - Evolution  4 - Concluding comments  Part II - The criminal organisation as a firm  4 - Internal cohesion and competition among criminal organisations  1 - Introductions  2 - The military technology and the probability of success  3 - Internal contracts and the dimension of the organisation: the monopsony case  4 - Internal organisation and competition amog rival families  5 - Conclusions  5 - Conspiracy among the many: the mafia in legitimate industries  1 - Introduction  2 - The form of cartel agreements  3 - A comparison of the Sicilian and New York mafias  4 - Instances of mafia cartels  5 - Conditions of emergence  6 - Consequences  7 - Conditions of disappearance  8 - Prices and profits  9 - Conclusions  Part III - Organised crime and state intervention in the economy  6 - Rival kleptocrats: the mafia versus the state  1 - Introduction  2 - Production with a monopoly state  3 - Welfare maximisation with a monopoly state  4 - Kleptocratic policy with a monopoly state  5 - The mafia as an alternative provider of public services  6 - Nash equilibrium  7 - Disruptive effects of the mafia  8 - Conclusions  7 - Corruption: arm's-length relationships and markets  1 - Introduction  2 - Markets and government  3 - Arm's-length relationships and cultures  4 - On corruption  5 - Economic consequences of corruption  6 - Policy implications  7 - Corruption and organised crime  8 - Concluding remarks  Part IV - Deterrence policies against legal firms involved in illegal activities  8 - Auditing with 'ghosts'  1 - Introduction  2 - The model  3 - Random audit  4 - Conditioning audit probability on reportes output  5 - Random audit versus the cut-off rule  6 - Conclusion  9 - The reputational penalty firms bear from commiting criminal fraud  1 - Introduction  2 - The theory of criminal penalties for frauds  3 - Data and empirical method  4 - Empirical results: stock return forecast errors  5 - The amount of lost reputation  6 - Comparing the expected penalty to the cost of the crime  7 - Earnings changes around corporate fraud announcements  8 - Aggregate wealth effects of the sentencing commission's guidelines  9 - Conclusion  Part V - Deterrence policies against organised crime  10 - Regulating the organised crime sector  1 - Introduction  2 - Description of the setting  3 - The model  4 - Government commitment strategies  5 - Conclusion  11 - Oligopolistic competition in illegal markets  1 - Introduction  2 - Competition in outputs  3 - Competition in prices  4 - Conclusions 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociedade Contemporânea<br/>Economia Informal<br/>Criminalidade<br/>Corrupção