Das Schlagwort "Kokainschwemme" macht derzeit die Runde, es beschreibt den gestiegenen Zufuhrdruck der Droge in Richtung Europa. Dabei betreiben Gruppen der organisierten Rauschgiftkriminalität den Einfuhrschmuggel von Kokain meist über europäische Containerhäfen, in deren Logistikbereichen...

As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansion accelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international trade has grown in tandem with it. This volume uses the economist's toolkit to examine the economic, political, and...

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...