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之间的申报监管激励差异，对文化财产与古董的非法贸易开展实证分析。本研究通过比对美国海关数据记录的进口货物信息，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指标。该申报缺口与出口国的腐败程度呈显著相关，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，美国玩具进口数据未呈现此类关联模式。针对另外四个西方国家的进口市场，本研究亦得到了相似的结论。（JEL F14, K42, Z11, Z13）