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Arceo-Gómez, Eva Olimpia - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2012

When President Felipe Calderón took office he declared a war on drug lords, thus initiating a war of attrition which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this paper I document how this escalation of violence has led Mexicans living close to the northern border to migrate...

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Arceo-Gómez, Eva Olimpia - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2012

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Are Illegal Drugs Inferior Goods?

Roy, Suryadipta - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2005

Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, evidence of income inferiority in illegal drug consumption is presented. This is done by estimation of binary choice probit models with endogenous regressors. The simultaneity issue between drug consumption and income has been addressed...

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Estimated optimal drug law enforcement expenditures based on U.S. annual data

Yunker, James A. - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 3, pp. 356-371

This research develops and implements a simple model for the determination of optimal national expenditures on drug law enforcement. The key components of the model are an econometrically estimated linear drug violations equation relating drug violations to drug enforcement expenditures and...

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Are Illegal Drugs Inferior Goods?

Roy, Suryadipta - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2005

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Cocaine: The Complementarity Between Legal and Illegal Trade

Russo, Francesco Flaviano - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2010

The smuggling cost of an imported illegal good decreases as the volume of legally imported goods increases. First because more imports are typically associated to an increased number of transporters, which is an increased supply of potential smugglers. Second because, as the number of shipments...

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Money laundering in Australian casinos

Langdale, John - In: Journal of Money Laundering Control 26 (2022) 7, pp. 99-109

Purpose This study aims to examine the role of Australian casinos in facilitating money laundering and Chinese capital flight. Design/methodology/approach The reports and transcripts of evidence from government inquiries into money laundering in Australian casinos are integrated with analyses of...

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The protection of the rights and special needs of trafficked children

Agency for Fundamental Rights - 2008

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Opinion of the Expert Group on Trafficking in Human Beings of the European Commission in connection with the world Football Cup 2006 in Germany and the related assumption of increa...

Expert group on trafficking in human beings of the … - 2006

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Does prostitution constrain sex crimes? : micro-evidence from Korea

Cho, Seo-Young - 2015

This paper investigates empirically whether prostitution reduces sex crimes. Theoretical predictions suggest two … contradicting effects: substituting or complementing. By using survey data of sex offenders in Korea, I find that prostitution … sex crimes. These results indicate that prostitution intensifies one's propensities for more violent sexual behaviors …

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