The role of adaptation in impact assessment and integrated assessment of climate policy is briefly reviewed. Agriculture in the US is taken as exemplary of this issue. Historic studies in which no adaptation is assumed (so-called "dumb farmer") versus farmer-agents blessed with perfect foresight...

Analyses how money made from entrepreneurial crime is disbursed through Canada’s legitimate economy; this is one of the first quantitative studies of money laundering using a survey of police cases, and the exclusive source of primary data was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police proceeds of...

Examines how financial proceeds of entrepreneurial crime are disbursed throughout Canada’s legitimate economy, focusing on the use of criminally controlled companies as money laundering vehicles. Outlines the design of the research, including data sources, sampling method, data collection, and...

Purpose – To explore how lawyers are used to launder the proceeds of criminal activity. Regulatory measures that compel legal professionals to report suspected money laundering, and the implications this has for solicitor‐client privilege, are also addressed. Design/methodology/approach –...

This paper articulates and applies frameworks for examining whether consumption is excessive. We consider two criteria for the possible excessiveness (or insufficiency) of current consumption. One is an intertemporal utility-maximization criterion: actual current consumption is deemed excessive...

This article examines how the financial proceeds of organized criminal activity are laundered through the Canadian real estate market. The source of data for this study was cases from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Real estate has many attributes that make it an attractive destination for...