期刊名称：Working Papers of The Institute of Economics, Zagreb
印刷版ISSN：1846-4238
电子版ISSN：1847-7844
出版年度：2019
期号：1
页码：1-24
出版社：Ekonomski institut, Zagreb
摘要：This paper investigates tobacco smuggling in the Western Balkans, a region notorious as the main smuggling route for Western European countries. Data from a large-scale nationally representative survey from seven Western Balkan countries are used to explore smoking habits, attitudes about the illicit market, and predictors of illicit market demand. Our results show that, while there are substantial differences between countries in the prevalence of illicit market purchases, the attitudes of people across countries are not dissimilar. The logit model is estimated in order to analyze the predictors of illicit market buying. The results show that purchasing on the illicit market can best be predicted by variables approximating people’s social status. People with lower income and higher levels of addiction are more likely to buy illegal tobacco.
