Research on the economic consequences of violence

Ajzenman, Nicolás; Galiani, Sebastián; Seira, Enrique. 2014. On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides. Washington DC: InterAmerican Development Bank.

Altamirano, Melina, Sarah Berens, and Sandra Ley. 2020. “The Welfare State amid Crime: How Victimization and Perceptions of Insecurity Affect Social Policy Preferences in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Politics and Society, Special issue on “Societies under Stress.”

Aldeco, Lorenzo, Andrés Jurado, and Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez, 2019. “Internal Migration and Drug Violence in Mexico”. Working Paper.

Andreas, Peter. 2019. “Crime, Violence, and Illicit Economies in Regional and Global Perspective.” Perspectives on Politics, 17(2), 485-491.

Ansolabehere, Karina, Barbara Frey, and Leigh Payne (eds). 2021. Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America. Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford University Press.

Ansolabehere, Karina and Alvaro Martos. (2022). "Violence Regimes and Disappearances: Some reflections from the Northeast Region of Mexico." In Silvana Mandolessi and Katia Olalde Rico (eds.) Disappearances in Mexico: From the 'Dirty War' to the 'War on Drugs'. London: Routledge.

Ashby, Nathan and Miguel Ramos. 2013. Foreign direct investment and industry response to organized crime: The Mexican case. European Journal of Political Economy 30(June): 80-91.

Atuesta, Laura and Dusan Paredes. 2016. "Do Mexicans flee from violence? The effects of drug-related violence on the migration decisions in Mexico." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(3): 2015: 480-502.

Atuesta, Laura and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings. 2013. "Economic welfare analysis of the legalization of drugs: A CGE microsimulation model for Colombia." Economic Systems Research, 25(2): 190-211,

Barnes, Nicholas. 2017. “Criminal Politics: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Organized Crime, Politics, and Violence.” Perspectives on Politics, 15(4), 967-987. doi:10.1017/S1537592717002110

Benton, Allyson. 2017. “Violent Crime and Capital Market Punishment: How Violent Crime Affects the Supply of Debt to Municipal Mexico.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 52(4), 483-509.

Cepeda-Francese, Camilo A., and Aurora A. Ramírez-Álvarez. "Reforming Justice under a Security Crisis: The Case of the Criminal Justice Reform in Mexico". Serie documentos de trabajo del Centro de Estudios Económicos 2021-06, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos.

Cruz, José Miguel. 2010. “Central American Maras: From Youth Street Gangs to Transnational Protection Rackets.” Global Crime, 11(4):379-398.

Díaz-Cayeros, Alberto, Beatriz Magaloni, and Vidal Romero. 2015. “Caught in the Crossfire: The Geography of Extortion and Police Corruption in Mexico”. In Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State, Susan Rose-Ackerman (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Garriga, Ana Carolina, and Brian J. Phillips. Forthcoming. "Criminal Violence and the Subnational Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment." Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana, and Mónica Oviedo. 2017. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Socioeconomic Impact of Drug Cartels and Their Violence.” Journal of Economic Geography 18(6): 1315–38.

Institute for Economics & Peace. 2021. Mexico Peace Index 2021: Identifying and Measuring the Factors that Drive Peace. Sidney, May 2021.

Jaitman, Laura (ed). 2017. Los Costos del Crimen y de la Violencia. Nueva Evidencia y Hallazgos en America Latina y el Caribe. Washington DC: InterAmerican Development Bank.

Ley, Sandra and Magdalena Guzmán. 2019. “Doing Business in the Context of Criminal Violence in Mexico.” In D. Avant, M. Berrie, E. Chenoweth, R. Epstein, C. Hendrix, O. Kaplan, and T. Sisk, Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

López García, Ana Isabel. 2020. “The 3×1 Programme and Criminal Violence in Mexico.” Global Networks 20(4): 625-655

Luckham, Robin. 2017. “Whose Violence, Whose security? Can Violence Reduction and Security Work for Poor, Excluded and Vulnerable People?” Peacebuilding, 5(2): 99-117.

MacClinchy, Wendy, and Rachel Scott. 2016. "Overview: Violence, fragility and finance." States of Fragility 2016. Paris:OECD: 19-30.

Magaloni, Beatriz, Gustavo Robles, Aila Matanock, Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, and Vidal Romero. 2020. "Living in Fear: the Dynamics of extortion in Mexico’s Drug War." Comparative Political Studies, 53(7), 1124-1174.

Menjívar, Cecilia, and Diane E. Davis. 2017. Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics. University of Oklahoma Press.

Meseguer, Covadonga, Sandra Ley, and J.Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo. 2017. “Sending Money Home in Times of Crime: The Case of Mexico.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(13): 2169-2192.

Midgley, James. 2017. “Conflict, Peace and Social Development.” In Future Directions in Social Development, eds. James Midgley and Manohar Pawar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 99–118.

Moncada, Eduardo. 2016. Cities, business, and the politics of urban violence in Latin America. Stanford University Press.

Moncada, Eduardo. 2016. "Urban Violence, Political Economy, and Territorial Control: Insights from Medellín." Latin American Research Review 51(4): 225-248.

Moncada, Eduardo. 2021. Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.

Plaza, Natalia Ospina, and Gregorio Giménez Esteban. 2009. "La Violencia en Latinoamérica y sus Efectos sobre la Inversión y la Educación." Estudios de Economia Aplicada 27(3): 1-22.

Ramírez-Álvarez, Aurora Alejandra. 2021. “Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from Mexico”, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 37(1): 68–133.

Robles, Gustavo, Gabriela Caderón, Beatriz Magaloni. 2015. The Economic Consequences of Drug Trafficking Violence in Mexico. Poverty and Governance Series Working Paper, Stanford University.

Romero, Vidal. 2020. Bloody Investment: Misaligned Incentives, Money Laundering and Violence. Trends in Organized Crime, 1-29.

Romero, Vidal, and Juan Carlos Belausteguigoitia. 2021. “The Resource Curse at the Local Level: Oil Projects and Insecurity.” ITAM-CIERN Working paper.

Rylko-Bauer, Barbara, and Paul Farmer. 2016. "Structural Violence, Poverty, and Social Suffering." The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 47-75.

Solar, Carlos. 2015. The inter-institutional governance of money laundering: an in-depth look at Chile following re-democratisation, Global Crime, 16:4, 328-350.