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- ISSN: 25189808 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.30875/4445c521-en
Illicit Trade and Infectious Diseases
We collect a novel dataset that covers about 130 countries and the six four-digit live animal categories in the Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal health from infectious diseases.
Keywords: disease, live animals, Illicit trade, missing imports
JEL:
F18: International Economics / Trade / Trade and Environment;
I18: Health, Education, and Welfare / Health / Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health;
K42: Law and Economics / Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior / Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law;
F14: International Economics / Trade / Empirical Studies of Trade;
Q57: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
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