Detotto, Claudio; Manuela, Pulina - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 2063-2074
This paper aims at assessing the causal and temporal relationships between crime and the economic indicators related to the aggregated demand function. The case study is Italy and a quarterly frequency is used (1981:1-2005:4). A Vector Autoregressive Correction Mechanism (VECM) is employed after...