Smuggling and cross border shopping of tobacco in Europe

Informal cross - border trade and smuggling in Africa

The low level and discrepancies of recorded intraAfrican trade flows have been noted for at least 30 years (Berg 1985; Yeats 1990). This situation has continued or even expanded despite structural adjustment programs involving trade liberalization and extensive integration schemes aiming to promote formal integration. There are some 30 regional blocs in Africa, and on average each of the 53 cou...

Tobacco Smuggling

Cross - border shopping and the ‘ bandwidth of familiarity ’ :

Cross-border Regions in Europe Significance and Drivers of Regional Cross-border Co-operation

The 1990s have seen a strong surge in the number of cross-border regions all over Western and Eastern Europe. The article analyses the emergence of these local cross-border institutions in public governance by addressing their context, dimensions and causal underpinnings. First, it offers a brief background on the history of cross-border regions in Europe and related EU policies to support them...

Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets. We rst develop a simple theoretical model in which consumers choose between state lotteries and face a trade-o between travel costs and the price of a fair gamble, which is declining in the size of the jackpot and the odds of winning. Given this trade-o , the model predic...