Eine harsche Kritik der westlichen Ökonomie, die im Zeichen der Liberalisierung und Deregulierung zu einer "Schurkenwirtschaft" mutiert sei, so die renommierte Journalistin und Expertin auf dem Gebiet der "Schattenwirtschaft" (vgl. L. Napoleoni "Die Ökonomie des Terrors", BA 6/04). Der Fall...

The drug trade as a global and national phenomenon -- Analytic perspectives for explaining the drug trade -- Conceptualizing consumption : drug use and drug users -- The production of psychoactive substances -- Distribution : linking producers and consumers -- Money laundering : money makes the...

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...

We show that the War on Drugs launched by the Mexican President Felipe Calderón in 2007 pushed drug cartels into large-scale oil thefts. Municipalities that the presidential candidate’s party barely won at the local elections in 2007-2009 exhibit a larger increase in illegal oil taps over the...