The Price Elasticity of Hard Drugs: The Case of Opium in the Dutch East Indies, 1923-1938
利用20世纪初荷属东印度（今印尼）鸦片专卖局的数据，估计了鸦片消费的短期价格弹性约为-0.7，长期约为-1.0，对理解毒品市场政策有参考价值。
At the beginning of this century, the Dutch government controlled the opium market in the Dutch East Indies--nowadays Indonesia--for several decades. This state monopoly was called the opiumregie. Using information gathered during the opiumregie, this paper estimates price elasticities of opium consumption. It appears that short-term price elasticities of opium use are about -0.7. Long-term price elasticities are about -1.0. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.