The Relationship Between Illicit Coca Production and Formal Economic Activity in Peru

By Peter L. Pedroni, Concha Verdugo Yepes

August 1, 2011

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Peter L. Pedroni, and Concha Verdugo Yepes. The Relationship Between Illicit Coca Production and Formal Economic Activity in Peru, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

This paper investigates the relationship between unrecorded economic activity associated with the production of illicit coca and formally recorded economic activity in Peru. It does so by attempting to construct new regional level estimates for coca production and by implementing recently developed panel time series methods that are robust to regional heterogeneity and unobserved regional inter-dependencies. The paper finds that on balance illicit coca production crowds out formal sector production at the regional level, regardless of whether unanticipated changes occur nationally or regionally. However, total output nevertheless increases, since formal sector production is crowded out less than one for one.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Expenditure, Government debt management, Legal support in revenue administration, National accounts, Prices, Public financial management (PFM), Public investment spending, Revenue administration

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Coca derivatives production, Coca leaf production estimate, Coca paste production, Coca production, Cocaine production, Consumer price indexes, Consumption, Drugs, Economic impact, Europe, Global, Government debt management, Latin America, Legal support in revenue administration, Peru, Production value, Public investment spending, Regional economics, WP

Publication Details

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51
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Working Paper No. 2011/182
Stock No:

WPIEA2011182
ISBN:

9781462310289
ISSN:

1018-5941

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