Chrysovalantis Vasilakis, maître de conférence en économie, Bangor Business School

Le séminaire du jeudi 29 septembre 2022 est animé par Chrysovalantis Vasilakis, maître de conférence en économie à la Bangor Business School, Department of Business.

Chrysovalantis Vasilakis a obtenu son doctorat en économie en 2013 à l'Université Catholique de Louvain. Il est également chercheur associé à l'Institut de recherche économique et sociale (IRES) de l'Université catholique de Louvain et au laboratoire de gestion et de décision (MDE-LAB) de l'Université d'Egée, département d'ingénierie financière et de gestion. Récemment, il a rejoint l'IZA en tant que chercheur affilié.

Ses recherches portent sur les migrations internationales, l'économétrie appliquée avec des applications en finance, santé, éducation, croissance économique et gouvernance d'entreprise.
Il s'intéresse également au Big data, à l'apprentissage automatique, aux prévisions, à la théorie des nombres et aux équations différentielles partielles.

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Titre de sa présentation : The Effect of the Exposure to Refugees on Crime Activity: Evidence from the Greek Islands.

Abstract:
The recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered the largest flow of refugees into Europe since WWII. In their attempt to enter Europe, refugees used boats that departed from various locations along the Turkish coast, heading toward the closest Greek island. We use exogenous variation in the number of refugees across the Greek islands to answer two questions: (1) Does the reported crime rate change in the destination islands after the arrival of the refugees? (2) Are some types of crimes more likely to be committed than others? We assembled a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents at the island level based on official police records and newspaper reports. We employ instrumental variables and difference-in-differences techniques to study the causal relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on the destination island increases reported crime incidents by 2-4% compared with neighboring unexposed islands. We find that this is driven by reported crime incidents committed by the refugees, while there is no change in reported crimes committed by natives on those islands. Additionally, we show that there is no increase in drug-related crimes, while there is an increase in incidents of property crimes, knife attacks, and rape. Our findings highlight the need for government provision in terms of infrastructure, social benefits, quicker examination of asylum, and social security.
 

Le séminaire débute à 13 heures 30 en salle 227 (2e étage du BATEG).