The governance institutions of a drug trafficking organization

Public Choice

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 95-103

  Kostelnik, James ^a   Skarbek, David ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Club goods; Organized crime; Violence and fragile states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878922102     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-012-0050-x     Document Type: Article

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