We study a firm's product design, distribution, and pricing problem when it is presented with the opportunity to enter a foreign market. Specifically, we focus on identifying the product quality, product access, and consumer welfare outcomes when the firm decides to pursue new consumers in a...

Human smuggling is a global phenomenon which has been difficult to research. Even though there is a large and growing literature on human smuggling, the literature lacks a systematic review of the major theoretical and conceptual approaches. This literature review is organized with the purpose...

State concerns about crime and security issues have strongly affected conceptions of economic action outside the law, a traditional field of research in sociology. This increasing encroachment by policy-related concerns on the intellectual framework of the discipline has led, on one hand, to an...