From Sicilian mafia to Chinese "scam villages"

• Tác giả: Jeff Yan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 914.581 Geography of and travel in Europe
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 162882

Tóm tắt

Inspired by Gambetta's theory on the origins of the mafia in Sicily, we report a geo-concentrating phenomenon of scams in China, and propose a novel economic explanation. Our analysis has some policy implications.