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Article de Périodique
The entry of Colombian-sourced heroin into the US market: The relationship between competition, price, and purity (2014)
Auteur(s) :
ROSENBLUM, D. ;
UNICK, G. J. ;
CICCARONE, D.
Année
2014
Page(s) :
88-95
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
;
COLOMBIE
Thésaurus mots-clés
HEROINE
;
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
PRIX
;
PURETE
;
PRODUCTION
Résumé :
There have been large structural changes in the US heroin market over the past 20 years. Colombian-sourced heroin entered the market in the mid-1990s, followed by a large fall in the price per pure gram and the exit of Asian heroin. By the 2000s, Colombian-sourced heroin had become a monopoly on the east coast and Mexican-sourced heroin a monopoly on the west coast with competition between the two in the middle. We estimate the relationship between these changes in competitive market structure on retail-level heroin price and purity. We find that the entry of Colombian-sourced heroin is associated with less competition and a lower price per pure gram of heroin at the national level. However, there is wide variation in changes in market concentration across the US. Controlling for the national fall in the heroin price, more competition in a region or city is associated with a lower price per pure gram.
Affiliation :
Dalhousie University, Departement of Economics Halifax, NS, Canada
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