The purpose of this research is to study the presence of illegal economy and money laundering processes from a macroeconomic perspective to analyze their economic effects and propose a conceptual framework that identifies its impact in terms of the mechanisms identified. Thus, considering the...

In the present study we have started from the premise that from the analysis of the "money laundering", the money resulted from this is circulating in the whole world, through some geographical and institutional channels. Starting from the characteristics of "tax haven", we have made a parallel...

This paper implements a methodology that exploits firms and households’ optimality conditions to measure money laundering for the Italian economy. This approach, first implemented by Ingram, Kocherlakota, and Savin (1997) to the household production sector, and by Busato, Chiarini and Di Maro...

The study of criminal organisations and illegal supply chains is relevant to understand the dynamics of illegal economy. Indeed, the definition of a behavioural and relational model of criminal organisations would permit to improve the efficiency of control policies. Furthermore, it would permit...

В статье проанализированы формы иллегализации экономической деятельности в сфере внешней торговли товарами в Украине и каналы их осуществления. Представлен...

From 1997 to 2005, an astonishing 5,200 million USD was invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world's main cocaine producer. However, little is known about the effectiveness of policies targeting coca cultivation. This paper uses a surveybased experiment to evaluate the effects...

Abstract The standard model of markets for illicit drugs predicts that tougher enforcement against sellers will raise prices; yet cocaine and heroin prices have fallen substantially during a period of massive increases in enforcement. We present a model in which the basic mechanisms at work in...

The standard model of markets for illicit drugs predicts that tougher enforcement against sellers will raise prices; yet cocaine and heroin prices have fallen substantially during a period of massive increases in enforcement. We present a model in which the basic mechanisms at work in the...

Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely remains a 'black box' (Western, 2021). This paper studies the impact of the new psychoactive substances (NPS) epidemic within prisons. NPS are powerful addictive chemical...