Episode 83: Santiago Tobón on the Governance Provided by Organised Criminal Groups

The paper discussed in this episode is “Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance (academic.oup.com/restud/advance-article-abstra…)” by Christopher Blattman (nber.org/people/christopher_blattman), Gustavo Duncan (nber.org/people/gustavo_duncan), Benjamin Lessing (nber.org/people/benjamin_lessing), and Santiago Tobón (nber.org/people/santiago_tobon).
Papers mentioned in this episode include:
Blanes i Vidal, J., & Kirchmaier, T. (2018). The effect of police response time on crime clearance rates. The Review of Economic Studies, 85(2), 855-891.