Modeling the Domestic Distribution Network for Illicit Drugs
构建了一个经济模型，分析毒贩决定供应多少客户（即分销网络的分支因子）与价格加成、销售成本与产品成本比率的关系，帮助从市场特征推断分销网络特性，为毒品管控干预提供参考。
This paper presents a simple economic model of a drug dealer's decision about how many customers to supply. The model relates the number of customers (i.e., the branching factor of the distribution network) to a quantity discount factor describing the extent to which prices are marked up from one distribution level to the next and the ratio of selling costs to product costs. Solving the model allows one to infer characteristics of the domestic distribution network from more readily observable characteristics of the markets and, thereby, to gain insight into how drug control interventions might work.