This study examined drug trafficking phenomenon from the global perspective. The study employed a desk review research … expansion of the drug trade. The study also found that the debilitating effect of the drug trade on societies coupled with its … links to other transnational threats can leads to prolonged drug war. The study recommended that international drug control …

When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites … are more likely to be assassinated in areas close to oil pipelines used by drug trafficking organizations for oil theft … has already been killed, the arrest of a member of organized crime significantly increases the chance that an incumbent …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … larger among low-wage, female-intensive but also domestically buying and selling plants. These findings show the rise of drug …

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an … instrumental variable strategy that relies on the triggers of the Drug War against potential endogeneity of the violence surge. It …