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Mexico; Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This paper presents Mexico’s detailed assessment report on antimoney laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. Powerful drug cartels, resorting to extreme violence, have extended their activities across various parts of the country, and these activities pose significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245221
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The Illicit Drug Market : Paradoxical Effects of Law Enforcement Policies.
Poret, S. - 2001
This paper presents a model of a vertically organized distribution network of illicit drugs with traffickers and retailers. The key assumption is the non-linear transactions costs related to the risk undergone by drugs sellers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780842
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ASPECTS ON INQUISITION PROCEDURE IN CRIMES RELATED TO THE REGIME OF DRUGS AND PRECURSORS (English version)
NICOLAE, George Gabriel; NICOLAE, Corina - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 3-4 (2010) December, pp. 311-317
The inquisition is the procedural activity consisting in searching a person or its premises in order to find and pick up objects or inscriptions known and solicited by the judicial organ, but not voluntarily delivered, as well as the eventual discovery of evidence necessary to find the truth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788516
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Albania; Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
In this study, antimoney laundering and counterterrorist financing measures (AML/CFT) were summarized. The measures taken to strengthen the financing system are analyzed. Albania’s level of compliance with financial action task force (FATF) is assessed. Legal systems and related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243389
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ILLEGAL DRUG MARKETS IN EUROPE: THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION
Maftei, Loredana - In: CES Working Papers 4(2) (2012) June, pp. 164-176
of illegal drugs, Europe is viewed by criminal organizations as a transit area for heroin, cocaine, cannabis and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859888
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Do medical marijuana laws increase hard drug use?
Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - School of Economics and Finance, Victoria Business School - 2014
cocaine and heroin. In this paper, I empirically study the relationships between marijuana and cocaine or heroin by analyzing … marijuana arrests and treatments by 10–20%. However, there is no evidence that cocaine and heroin usage increases after the … passage of medical marijuana laws. In fact, the estimates on cocaine and heroin arrests or treatments are uniformly negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904193
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Do prices count? A micro-econometric study of illicit drug consumption based on self-reported data
Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Biørn, Erik - In: Empirical Economics 29 (2004) 3, pp. 673-695
sets out to estimate the impact of economic factors on heroin and amphetamine injectors’ drug consumption, including cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005382177
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ILLEGAL DRUG MARKETS IN EUROPEAN UNION
CAUNIC, Irina; PRELIPCEAN, Gabriela - In: The Annals of the "Stefan cel Mare" University of … 11 (2011) 2(14), pp. 56-62
profitable in terms of heroin and cocaine consumption. The article focuses on the analysis of the theoretical aspects concerning …
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illicit drugs, retail market
Galenianos, Manolis - Palgrave Macmillan
Three key features of the retail trade for illicit drugs are documented: moral hazard, repeated interactions and price dispersion. An interpretation of this evidence based on search and informational frictions is presented. Various policy implications of the suggested interpretation are discussed.
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DYNAMICS OF THE ROMANIAN ILLEGAL DRUG MARKETS
Caunic, Irina; Tulica, Mircea - In: CES Working Papers 3(2) (2011) June, pp. 170-181
Globalization has led to an increase in commercial activities running on the illegal markets, its dynamics being largely determined by the balance between profitability and the major risks involved. Revenues are significant, one example being those obtained from drug industry. In recent years,...
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