Inferring Cocaine Flows across Europe: Evidence from Price Data
Inferring Cocaine Flows across Europe: Evidence from Price Data
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推断可卡因在欧洲的流动：来自价格数据的证据
DOI：
10.2202/1941-2851.1029
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Kelly Steffen
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作者：
Siddharth Chandra;Matthew Barkell;Kelly Steffen
对《2010年世界毒品问题报告》中报告的欧洲可卡因价格数据进行了分析，目的是推断整个欧洲大陆可卡因跨国流动的模式。将市场一体化和价格梯度的概念结合起来，以确定流动的存在和方向性，并在此基础上构建可卡因流动的地理特征。调查结果与《世界毒品报告》中报告的可卡因流动的传闻数据大体一致。因此，这一方法是一种简单而有前途的方法，可以补充研究人员和决策者为查明问题点而作出的现有努力，以便管理欧洲日益严重的可卡因问题和一般的毒品问题。
Price data for cocaine in Europe reported in the World Drug Report of 2010 are analyzed with the aim of inferring patterns of transnational cocaine flows across the continent. The concepts of market integration and price gradients are combined to identify the existence and directionality of flows, on the basis of which a geographic characterization of the movement of cocaine is constructed. The findings are broadly consistent with anecdotal data on cocaine flows reported in the World Drug Report. The methodology is, therefore, a simple and promising methodology that can supplement existing efforts by researchers and policy-makers to identify trouble spots with a view to managing the growing cocaine problem in Europe and drug problems in general.