Who We Are
Principal Investigators (Mexico – UK)
Sandra Ley
Associate Professor, CIDE
Associate Professor, CIDE
My research examines the behavioural consequences of criminal violence, with emphasis on Mexico. I have also worked extensively on the political origins of organized crime in Mexico. My new book project focuses on why organized crime targets civil society and the condition under which different civil society groups can resist to criminal governance, including the private business sector.
Twitter: @sjleyg
Carolina Garriga
Professor, University of Essex
Professor, University of Essex
I study the political economy of finance in developing countries, focusing on monetary institutions and capital flows. I have studied the behaviour of investors in conflict and post-conflict countries, and foreign direct investment in Mexico from different angles, including the effects of violence. My new research analyses monetary institutions in civil conflicts, and the effect of economic reforms on foreign investment.
Twitter: @Caro_Garriga
Network Partners
Laura Atuesta
CIDE-Región Centro
Expertise: Drug Policy, Economics of crime and violence, Regional and Urban Economics, Public Policy Evaluation.
Current research on the relationship between crime and (a) housing prices, and (b) housing use.
Twitter: @atuesta_laura
Aurora Alejandra Ramírez Álvarez
El Colegio de México
Expertise: Development Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics.
Current research on: (a) the effects of drug-related violence on internal migration in Mexico, with an estimation of workers’ moving costs and willingness to pay for lower violence and a study of violence caused welfare losses; (b) the effects of crime news coverage on perceptions, crime avoidance behaviour, and conspicuous consumption; (c) the effects of criminal justice reform on crime rates, pre-trial detention, and judicial efficiency measures.
Vidal Romero
ITAM
Expertise: Political Science, Political Economy, Governance, Security and Crime.
Current research on economic bonanzas and crime, focusing on (a) extractive industries, and how public security is affected by the presence of oil installations at the local level; (b) money laundering. And, research on the relationship between fiscal policy and public security.
Twitter: @vidalromero_
Collaborators
Andrea Velásquez (UC-Denver)
Angelika Rettberg (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Brian Phillips (University of Essex, UK)
Carlos Solar (University of Essex, UK)
Cecilia Farfán (University of California-San Diego)
Covadonga Meseguer (Beatriz Galindo Senior Professor, UNED, Spain)
Eduardo Moncada (Barnard College, USA)
Gustavo Flores Macías (Cornell University, USA)
Kimberly Nolan (FLACSO, Mexico)
Melina Altamirano (Colmex, Mexico)
Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)