demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and trafficking of drugs), and shows how the …

demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and trafficking of drugs), and shows how the …

We model the war on drugs in source countries as a conflict over scarce inputs of successive levels of the production …

?). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with …We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a … conflict. We find that importers of the contested resource gain unambiguously. By contrast, countries exporting the contested …

to violence in markets without third party enforcement. We construct a model in which supply shortages increase total … party enforcement, the incentives to prey on others and avoid predation by exercising violence increase with scarcity, thus …

them the price elasticity of demand, and the effectiveness of the resources allocated to enforcement and prevention and … policies (aimed at reducing the demand for illegal drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and …

profits fuel violence. Killing kingpins makes crime bosses short-sighted, also fueling conflict. Only by targeting the most …