Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling

An Annotated Bibliography Migrant Smuggling in Asia

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...

Criminological Analysis of the Anti-Smuggling of Goods and Currency Law "Adopted in 1392"

Smuggling commodities and currencies, as a social and economic phenomenon, have very adverse economic effects. The smuggling of goods and the importance of fighting them, organizing the status of border exchanges, moving towards a transparent economy and adapting the behavior of regulatory bodies are among the most important operational axes to combat smuggling of goods. In this article, after ...

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...