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Quantity Discounts and Quality Premia for Illicit Drugs

 

作者: JonathanP. Caulkins,   Rema Padman,  

 

期刊: Journal of the American Statistical Association  (Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期: Volume 88, issue 423  

页码: 748-757

 

ISSN:0162-1459

 

年代: 1993

 

DOI:10.1080/01621459.1993.10476335

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

关键词: Price;Purity;Transaction size

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

This article explores quantity discounts and quality (purity) premia in the prices of illicit drugs. It examines several models of how drug prices might depend on transaction size. A simple relation implied by a tree model of the domestic distribution network fits data provided by the Western States Information Network for 1984–1991 quite well for various illicit drugs. Quality premia are less well explained. It is observed that price is not a function of pure quantity alone; customers pay more for 2 grams at a given purity than they do for 1 gram at double that purity. Nevertheless, some purity premia are observed for white heroin, brown heroin, and powder cocaine, although not for methamphetamines, crack, or heroin tar. The estimated coefficients reflect known phenomena such as the collapses in the prices of cocaine and black tar heroin; intuitively reasonable but undocumented phenomena, such as discounts for brown heroin near the Mexican border; and some unexpected results, such as an apparent difference between the distribution of sinsemilla and that of other cannabis products.

 

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