![Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller](https://bse.eu/sites/default/files/styles/bgse_image_content_image/public/besley-mueller.jpg?itok=rnR4tgP0)
The American Economic Association has produced a short video summarizing the findings of a paper by Timothy Besley (LSE) and Hannes Mueller (IAE-CSIC and BSE) published in the April issue of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. In their paper, the authors examine the impact on a nation’s economy when the state fails to protect companies from criminal threats.