Heroin Smuggling in Serbia

Tobacco Smuggling

Smuggling Taxol into cancer cells

Some cancer cells evade chemotherapy by expressing cell membrane pumps to expel toxins. One such pump is the P-glycoprotein, which exports the widely used chemotherapy compound Taxol as it passes through the membrane. To counter P-glycoprotein efflux, Elena Dubikovskaya et al. modified Taxol’s structure, attaching a peptide that alters the mechanism by which the compound enters cells. The new c...

Models for nuclear smuggling interdiction

We describe two stochastic network interdiction models for thwarting nuclear smuggling. In the first model, the smuggler travels through a transportation network on a path that maximizes the probability of evading detection, and the interdictor installs radiation sensors to minimize that evasion probability. The problem is stochastic because the smuggler’s origin-destination pair is known only ...

Vietnam: smuggling adds value.

Internal British American Tobacco (BAT) documents 1 have been explicit about the knowledge of cigarette smuggling into Vietnam. In one document , Vietnam Status Report (12 May 1995), it was stated: " Cigarette imports were banned 6 years ago. Smuggled sales into Vietnam are currently estimated at approximately 7 bn [bil-lion] p.a. although prior to a crack-down in 1990 (when all smuggling was v...

Smuggling , Camouflaging , and Market Structure

We examine how market structure and enforcement affect smuggling and welfare in a model where smuggling is camouflaged by legal sales. Conditions are given for when some, but not necessarily all, firms smuggle. With camouflaging, t e market price is below the price when all sales are legal, so smuggling improves wel if the price effect outweighs excess smuggling cost. This welfare effect is dir...