Illegal Markets

This Special Feature on illegal markets gathers, perhaps for the first time, papers by some of the world’s leading experts on nine different illegal markets. All are tasked with describing “their” market via a common analytic lens that focuses on the markets’ structure and how they operate. Two additional papers synthesize the main findings from these articles, focusing on analytic commonalities and implications for policy. Collectively, these 11 papers raise questions that may motivate other researchers to work on these topics, possibly spurring conversations about whether illegal markets should become a more prominent field of scientific inquiry.