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Shooting down the price: Evidence from Mafia homicides and housing prices

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  • Michele Battisti
  • Giovanni Bernardo
  • Andrea Mario Lavezzi
  • Giuseppe Maggio

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In this paper, 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 data set 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 Camorra homicides. En este artículo se estima el efecto de los homicidios de la Camorra, la mafia napolitana, sobre los precios de la vivienda en Nápoles. El estudio se desarrolla a partir de un conjunto único de datos de panel a nivel de distrito administrativo para el periodo entre 2002 y 2018 de homicidios geolocalizados con víctimas inocentes (denotadas como VIH), que son tratados como perturbaciones exógenas que afectan negativamente a la demanda de viviendas. Se encontró que la ocurrencia de tales homicidios provoca una disminución de los precios de la vivienda en un rango de 2,5 a 3,8 puntos porcentuales. Este efecto disminuye con la distancia a una VIH y con el tiempo. Estos resultados son robustos en cuanto a la utilización de diferentes especificaciones econométricas y a las consideraciones de posibles factores de confusión, como otros tipos de homicidios de la Camorra. 本稿では、ナポリのマフィアであるカモッラ(Camorra)による殺人事件がナポリの住宅価格に及ぼす影響を推定する。本研究は、2002~2018年までの、住宅需要に負の影響を与える外生的ショックとして扱われる、罪のない犠牲者を巻き込んだ局地的な殺人事件(IVHと表記する)の、行政区域レベルの独自のパネルデータセットを基に実施した。こうした殺人事件が発生すると、住宅価格は2.5‐3.8ポイント低下する。この影響は、IVHの発生現場からの距離、そして時間の経過とともに減少する。この結果は、様々な計量経済学的分析を使用した場合でも、カモッラが関わる他のタイプの殺人事件などが交絡因子として考えられる場合を考慮しても頑健である。

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  • Michele Battisti & Giovanni Bernardo & Andrea Mario Lavezzi & Giuseppe Maggio, 2022. "Shooting down the price: Evidence from Mafia homicides and housing prices," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 101(3), pages 659-683, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:101:y:2022:i:3:p:659-683
    DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12664
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