CEP | People | Dr Mirko Draca

Biography

I am a Lecturer ('Assistant Professor') at Warwick and a Research Associate at both CEP and CAGE (Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy). My main research area is applied microeconomics, with applications to crime, political economy, the labour market and technical change. Current projects include work on the 'returns to crime', the impact of targeted economic sanctions on firms, and further work on lobbying.

Publications

Journal article

The changing returns to crime: do criminals respond to prices?

To what extent does crime follow the pattern of potential gains to illegal activity? This article presents evidence on how criminals respond to this key incentive by reporting crime-price elasticities estimated from a co... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis and Stephen Machin

01 May 2019

Journal article

Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on broad measures of technical change - patenting, IT, and TFP - using new panel data across twelve European countries from 1996 to 2007. In particular, we establish th... Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen

01 January 2016

CEP discussion papers

The changing returns to crime: do criminals respond to prices?

In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis and Stephen Machin

01 June 2015

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

The UK's 'riddle of peacefulness': what explains falling crime?

There has been a substantial fall in rates of property theft and violent crime in the UK. The author surveys a series of CEP studies that shed light on this transformation - what BBC home editor Mark Easton has labelled ... Read more...

Mirko Draca

27 June 2013

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

The returns to lobbying

Research by Mirko Draca and colleagues on Washington's 'revolving door' lobbyists gives an indication of the value of political connections in the UK.... Read more...

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen

16 February 2012

Journal article

Panic on the streets of London: police, crime, and the July 2005 terror attacks

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime, looking at what happened to crime and police before and after the terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeploy... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

01 August 2011

CEP discussion papers

Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on broad measures of technical change - patenting, IT, R&D, TFP and management practices – using new panel data across twelve European countries between 1996-2007. We c... Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen

01 January 2011

Journal article

Minimum wages and firm profitability

We study the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability, exploiting the changes induced by the introduction of a UK national minimum wage in 1999. We use pre-policy information on the distribution of wages to implemen... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen

01 January 2011

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

In brief: 'Revolving door' lobbyists

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen estimate the value of political connections in Washington... Read more...

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen

09 November 2010

CEP discussion papers

Revolving Door Lobbyists

Washington's 'revolving door' - the movement from government service into the lobbying industry- is regarded as a major concern for policy-making. We study how ex-government staffers benefit from the personal connections... Read more...

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen

01 August 2010

CEP discussion papers

Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks

In this paper we study the causal impact of police on crime by looking at what happened to crime before and after the terror attacks that hit central London in July 2005. The attacks resulted in a large redeployment of p... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

01 February 2008

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance

Panic on the Streets of London

The terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 resulted in a very large redeployment of police officers to central London boroughs. New research by Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt looks at the impact of this increased ... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

24 October 2006

CEP discussion papers

Productivity and ICT: A Review of the Evidence

We survey the micro and macro literature on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it e... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

01 August 2006

CEP discussion papers

Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minim... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen

01 February 2006

CEP discussion papers

The Employment Effects of the October 2003 Increase in the National Minimum Wage

There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on individuals to compare job loss of workers affected by a minimum wage increase with those who are not... Read more...

Richard Dickens and Mirko Draca

01 June 2005