Day 1

Monday, July 17

8.30:00 - 9:00     Registration and Welcome Address

9:00 - 9:45          The Institutional Role of the Italian Mafia: Enforcing Contracts When the State Does Not

Federica Braccioli (University of Geneva and Barcelona School of Economics)

9:45 - 10:30       Strategic Marriages as Criminal Alliances

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin and University of Essex), Marie Lalanne (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission)

10:30 - 11:15     Organized Crime and Environment

Cinzia di Novi (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and University of Pavia), Alessandro Flamini, (University of Pavia), Franco Peracchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)

Coffee break 11:15 - 11:45

11:45 - 12:30     When Migrants Mobilize Against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands

Gemma di Poppa (Brown University)

12:30 - 13:15     All is Not Lost: Organized Crime and Social Capital Accumulation

Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo)

Lunch break 13:15 - 14:30

14:30 - 15.45     Keynote Speech

Trust, Protection and Governance: my Journey in the Study of Organized Crime

Federico Varese (Oxford University)

Coffee break 15:45 - 16:15

16:15 - 17:00     Fascist Ideology and Labor Exploitation

Shanker Satyanath (NYU), Mario Carillo (Universita Federico II and UPF) and Gemma Dipoppa (Brown University).

17:00 - 17:45     Are Female Politicians Attacked More than Males, and Why? Evidence from Italy

Massimo Pulejo (University of Milan), Gianmarco Daniele (Bocconi University), Gemma Dipoppa (Brown University), 

Coffee break 17:45 - 18:15

18:15 - 19:00     The ‘trickle-down’ Effect of Criminally Accused Politicians on Violent Crime: A Study of India

Souparna Maji  (University of Geneva) and Vikram Bahure (King's College London)

Social dinner 19:30

Day 2

Tuesday, July 18

 9:00 - 9:45 The Political Economy of Collusion: How Organised Crime Captures Political Institutions

Enrico Cavallotti (Trinity College Dublin), Livio Di Lonardo (Bocconi University) and Nicola Mastrorocco (University of Bologna)

9:45 - 10:30            Gender Norms and Crime

Nadia Campaniello (University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Essex)

10:30 - 11:15       How do you say Plata o Plomo around the world? Bribes, violence, and elections in different countries

Giovanna Marcolongo (Bocconi University), Thea How Choon (St. Lawrence University) and Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University)

Coffee break 11:15 - 11:45

11:45 - 12:30          A machine learning approach for the detection of firms infiltrated by organised crime in Italy

Pasquale Cariello, Marco De Simoni and Stefano Lezzi (Bank of Italy, Financial Intelligence Unit).

12:30 - 13:15          Mafia infiltrations in times of crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 shock

Marco Castelluccio (University College London), Lucia Rizzica (Bank of Italy)

Lunch and Final greetings 13:15