Can enforcement backfire? Crime displacement in the context of customs reform in the Philippines

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Yang, Dean ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BUREAU FOR RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 38849178892     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.1.1     Document Type: Article

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