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Drug traffickers sometimes share profits peacefully. Other times they fight. We propose a model to investigate this … violence in drug war, which is less studied than interstate or civil war but often as deadly …
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) create scarcity and increase drug-related violence in Mexico. In accordance with our model, the effect of cocaine scarcity on … and drug-related homicides, respectively, experienced in the north of the country. At least in the short run, scarcity …
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This paper explores if scarcity increases violence in markets without a centralized authority. We construct a model in which, by raising prices and revenues, temporal supply shortages foster violence. Guided by our model, we examine empirically the link between scarcity and violence in the...
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