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Illicit Trade and the Global Economy.
Title:
Illicit Trade and the Global Economy.
Author:
Storti, Cláudia Costa.
ISBN:
9780262298681
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Series:
CESifo Seminar Series
Contents:
Contents -- Series Foreword -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Purity, Price, and Production: Are Drug Markets Different? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Motivation -- 2.3 Risks and Prices -- 2.4 Some Puzzles -- 2.5 Participant Characteristics, Market Outcomes, and Policy -- 2.6 Concluding Comments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. The Hidden Financial Flows of Organized Crime: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Kinds of Organized Crime Financing: A Preliminary Literature Review -- 3.3 The Infiltration of Organized Crime and the Informal Money Transfer (Hawala) System -- 3.4 Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in Internationa lTrade -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Misinvoicing in Trade -- 4.3 Methodology and Data -- 4.4 Empirical Results -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Data Appendix -- Chapter 5. Dark Side of Trade in Iran: Evidence from a Structural Equation Model -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Review of the Literature -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.4 Data -- 5.5 Results -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. Modeling the Cocaine and Heroin Markets in the Era of Globalization and Drug Reduction Policies -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Recent Developments in the Cocaine and Heroin Markets -- 6.3 The Model for the Retail Drug Market -- 6.4 Deriving the Producers' Supply Curve -- 6.5 Linking up Demand and Supply of Drugs -- 6.6 Globalization Once Again -- 6.7 A Case Study: The Development of the West African Cocaine Route toward Europe -- 6.8 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. The Impact of Globalization on the UK Market for Illicit Drugs: Evidence from Interviews with Convicted Drug Traffickers -- 7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Superterritoriality: Illicit Drug Markets as Flexible Social Networks -- 7.3 Summary -- 7.4 Method -- 7.5 Results -- 7.6 Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8. Khat, and the Informal Globalization of a Psychoactive Commodity -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Global Spread of Drug Use -- 8.3 Globalization as a Conceptual Tool in the Analysis of Drug Markets -- 8.4 Khat-Cultivation and Use -- 8.5 State Decline and the Growth of the Informal Sector in Africa -- 8.6 African States and International Agencies -- 8.7 Khat as an Economic Success Story -- 8.8 The Significance of Khat in Exports, Tax Revenue, and Foreign Exchange Earnings -- 8.9 The Anti-khat Campaign -- 8.10 Propping up the Lame Leviathan-The Role of International Agencies -- 8.11 Swimming against the Stream -- 8.12 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9. Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: The Italian Case -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Location of FDI in Italy -- 9.3 Crime and the Economy -- 9.4 The Empirical Analysis -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10. The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries: A Simple Analytical Framework -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Model -- 10.3 Calibration Strategy and Results -- 10.4 The Costs of the War on Drugs and the Interaction between Supply and Demand Reduction Policies -- 10.5 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Model Calibration -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Economists explore the relationship between expanding international trade and the parallel growth in illicit trade, including illegal drugs, smuggling, and organized crime.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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