Illicit trade in tobacco products (ITTP) is big business in the United States and creates many harms including reduced tax revenues; damages to the economic interests of legitimate actors; funding for organized-crime and terrorist groups; negative effects of participation in illicit markets,...

Using firm-level export data from six African (Burkina Faso and Senegal) and Latin American (Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay) countries, we examine factors that determine the survival of export flows. We explore the effects on export survival of changes in the number of home-country...

We present the findings of economic research regarding the issues surrounding net neutrality and regulation of the internet under Title II of the Communications Act. Our purpose here is to review what has been demonstrated in the economics literature rather than to advocate particular decisions...

Paper is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3322095" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3322095BOTEC Analysis surveyed 5,001 adult smokers in California from March 12 to April 13, 2018, about a year after the state tobacco excise tax increase on April 1, 2017. The purposes of the survey were to:•...

BOTEC Analysis surveyed 5,000 adult smokers in California from March 10 to March 29, 2017, right before the state tobacco excise tax increase on April 1, 2017. The purposes of the survey were to:• Measure awareness among smokers of the upcoming increase in the state excise tax• Discover...

This paper contains the appendices to the report "The Impact of E-Cigarette Regulation on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in the European Union" ("https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435177" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435177). The contents will be of interest to researchers studying EU regulations...

Mobile broadband Internet access is highly important to the American economy. The benefits of mobile broadband depend on investment in deploying and upgrading network infrastructure by broadband providers. Thus investment in mobile wireless infrastructure plays a vitally important role in...

Legal enforcement of bans on goods can reduce the size of the black market but lead to greater violence by increasing revenue in the illicit market. However, the link between enforcement and violence is not as simple as is suggested by the textbook model, even for a competitive market....

Laws that prohibit, regulate, or tax cigarettes can generate illicit markets for tobacco products. Illicit markets both reduce the efficacy of policies intended to improve public health and create harms of their own. Enforcement can reduce evasion but creates additional harms, including...