Replication data for: The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques

We empirically analyze the illicit trade in cultural property and antiques, taking advantage of different reporting incentives between source and destination countries. We generate a measure of illicit trafficking in these goods by comparing imports recorded in United States' customs data and the (purportedly identical) trade recorded by customs authorities in exporting countries. This reporting gap is highly correlated with corruption levels of exporting countries. This correlation is stronger for artifact-rich countries. As a placebo test, we do not observe any such pattern for US imports of toys. We report similar results for four other Western country markets. (JEL F14, K42, Z11, Z13)

本研究依托来源国与目的国间差异化的申报激励机制，针对文化财产与古董的非法贸易开展实证分析。我们通过比对美国海关统计数据记录的进口货物，与出口国海关当局记录的（理论上应完全一致的）同类贸易数据，构建了此类货物非法贩运的量化衡量指标。该申报差额与出口国的腐败程度呈显著相关性，且对于文物富集国家而言，这一相关性更为显著。作为安慰剂检验（placebo test），我们在美国玩具进口贸易中未观测到上述关联模式。此外，我们在另外四个西方国家的贸易市场中也得到了一致的研究结果。（JEL F14, K42, Z11, Z13）