The Business Model of Mexican Cartels

• In Event: The Politics and Economics of Organised Crime

Brief Overview

How does a criminal organisation react to a sudden loss in expected revenues? This paper aims to tackle this question by studying the effect of the US legalisation of Marijuana on the business model of Mexican Cartels.

Authors

• Nicola Mastrorocco, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics

• John Marshall, Columbia University in the City of New York