Theory Appendix for "Can Enforcement Backfire? Crime Displacement in the Context of Customs Reform in the Philippines."
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I develop here a fuller version of the model of smuggling displacement from Section 2 of the paper "Can Enforcement Backfire? Crime Displacement in the Context of Customs Reform in the Philippines." I assume a general form for the convex cost of smuggling, and account for the endogeneity of the volume imported by each firm. The basic conclusion–that a targeted increase in enforcement can raise or lower the smuggling rate–does not change.
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
Increased enforcement can displace crime to alternative lawbreaking methods. This paper examines a customs reform in the Philippines that raised enforcement against a specific method of avoiding import duties. Increased enforcement applied only to shipments from some countries, so shipments from other countries serve as a control group. Increased enforcement reduced the targeted duty-avoidance ...
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