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Recent Trends in Counterfeiting
Under the Reserve Bank Act 1959, the Reserve Bank has sole authority to issue banknotes in Australia. As such, a key responsibility of the Reserve Bank is to maintain public confidence in banknotes, so that they remain an effective payment mechanism and a secure store of wealth. This article examines how counterfeiting can impact on this confidence, and counterfeiting trends in Australia and ov...
متن کاملCounterfeiting of drugs in Brazil.
OBJECTIVE To identify the main counterfeit drugs seized by the Brazilian Federal Police and the states where seizures have been made. METHODS A retrospective descriptive study on expert reports produced by criminal investigators of the Federal Police between January 2007 and September 2010, in relation to counterfeit drugs, was carried out. RESULTS The drugs with greatest numbers of seizure...
متن کاملPharmaceutical counterfeiting.
Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is becoming a serious problem both in developed and developing countries. This paper considers the extent of the problem and provides several examples of drugs which have been counterfeited. Additionally, the effects of counterfeit products on consumers, health care providers, drug manufacturers and governments are discussed. Several of the currently used methods o...
متن کاملPrivate Money and Counterfeiting
P erhaps the most fundamental question in monetary economics pertains to the role of the government in providing money. A widely held view among economists is that the supply of media of exchange is an activity that should not be left to the private sector. Indeed, even Milton Friedman, who in most respects has viewed the economic role of the government quite narrowly, argues in Friedman (1960)...
متن کاملThe Economics of Counterfeiting
This paper develops a new tractable strategic theory of counterfeiting as a competition between good and bad guys. There is free entry of bad guys, who choose whether and what note to counterfeit, and what quality to produce. Good guys select a costly verification effort. Along with the quality, this effort fixes the chance of finding counterfeits, and induces a collateral “hot potato” passing ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The William and Mary Quarterly
سال: 1958
ISSN: 0043-5597
DOI: 10.2307/1918726