Worldwide organized cigarette smuggling: An empirical analysis

Applied Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 545-561

  Yurekli A ^a   Sayginsoy, O ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HSBC Bank   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCENTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARALLEL ECONOMY; RETAILING; SMUGGLING; TOBACCO;

EID: 77950912804     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701720721     Document Type: Article

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