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Behavioral responses to supply-side drug policy during the opioid epidemic
Balestra, Simone; Liebert, Helge; Maestas, Nicole; … - 2022
: the introduction of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). Using administrative datasets, we find PDMPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177127
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Globalization and the price decline of illicit drugs
Costa, Cláudia (contributor); De Grauwe, Paul (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497656
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Fueling organized crime : the Mexican War on Drugs and oil thefts
Battiston, Giacomo; Daniele, Gianmarco; Le Moglie, Marco; … - 2022
We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large … candidate’s party barely lost the elections. Challenger cartels in the drug market leapfrog incumbent drug cartels when entering …
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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
in drug-related homicides after NAFTA's introduction in 1994 across municipalities with and without drug …-trafficking routes. Routes are predicted least cost paths connecting municipalities with a recent history of detected drug trafficking …
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Curing sinus headaches and tying law : an empirical analysis of bundling decongestants and pain relievers
Evans, David S. (contributor);  … - 2005
We apply and extend the cost-based approach to bundling and tying under competition developed in Evans and Salinger (2004) to over-the-counter pain relievers and cold medicines. We document that consumers pay much less for tablets with multiple ingredients than they would if they bought tablets...
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Refueling a quiet fire : old truthers and new discontent in the wake of Covid-19
Beccari, Gabriele; Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2023
This paper investigates the factors that contributed to the proliferation of online COVID skepticism on Twitter across Italian municipalities. We demonstrate that socio-demographic factors are likely to mitigate the emergence of skepticism, while populist political leanings were more likely to...
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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008
the trade-off faced by the government of the drug consumer country between prevention policies (aimed at reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790762
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'High' achievers? : cannabis access and academic performance
Marie, Olivier; Zölitz, Ulf - 2015
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access based on individuals’ nationality. We apply a difference-in-difference approach using...
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Weeding out the dealers? : the economics of cannabis legalization
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice; Perrault, Tiffanie - 2020
We model consumer choices for cannabis in a risky environment and determine the supply of cannabis under prohibition and legalization. While introducing a legal market reduces the profits of illegal providers, it increases cannabis consumption. We show that this trade-off can be overcome by...
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2018
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an … instrumental variable strategy that relies on the triggers of the Drug War against potential endogeneity of the violence surge. It …
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