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Blowtooth: a provocative pervasive game for smuggling virtual drugs through real airport security [PDF]
In this paper we describe a pervasive game, Blowtooth, in which players use their mobile phones to hide virtual drugs on nearby airline passengers in real airport check-in queues.
A Albrechtslund +14 more
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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
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LEGAL CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL CONVERSION IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE IN INDONESIA
This article discusses the legal certainty of legal smuggling in interfaith marriages in Indonesia. Not a few who carry out interfaith marriages in Indonesia go abroad, even though this can be categorized as a form of legal smuggling due to avoiding the ...
Romli M. +3 more
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Smuggling, Camouflaging, and Market Structure [PDF]
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.
Jerry Thursby +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of environmental attention on cryptocurrency market volatility by introducing the Crypto Environmental Attention Index (CEAI), a new metric inspired by Wang et al. (2022) and constructed using daily web search data.
Ines Ghazouani +2 more
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Amid growing political polarization, human trafficking remains one of the few social causes that retains universal bipartisan support. Nowhere was this clearer than Florida in the spring of 2023, when Governor Ron DeSantis passed widely popular human ...
Mimi Whittaker
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Nowe wyzwania w zakresie zwalczania przemytu migrantów w Unii Europejskiej
NEW CHALLENGES IN COMBATING MIGRANT SMUGGLING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Migrant smuggling is an international crime that threatens people’s lives, violates fundamental rights and disrupts the proper management of migration flows.
Anastazja Gajda
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SMUGGLING AS ANOTHER CAUSE OF FAILURE OF THE PPP [PDF]
In theoretical literature, smuggling is considered as a factor contributing to the deviation of the PPP-based exchange rates from the equilibrium exchange rates with little empirical support.
Gour G. Goswami, Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
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ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a small‐scale qualitative study exploring the experiences of Foster Carers looking after unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC) who are identified or suspected victims of child trafficking (‘UASTC’—unaccompanied asylum‐seeking and trafficked children).
Rosie Galbraith
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Illegal Trade in South East Europe [PDF]
Based on the theoretical foundations as described in Bhagwati (1974), illegal trade can be defined to consist of faked invoicing on the one hand and smuggling on the other hand.
Mario Holzner, Vladimir Gligorov
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