Chair: Tom Gash
Nadia Campaniello (University of Essex) Mirko Draca (University of Warwick) David Skarbek (King’s College London) Federico Varese (Oxford University)
The significance of crime as an economic activity is often underestimated. Organised crime is big business, and
the tools of economics can help in tackling the problems crime causes, from gang violence to drug abuse to people trafficking. In fact, without the economics, policies on crime will probably fail. What advice would economists give about issues such as legalising drugs or sending more culprits to prison?