Drugs: Do European drugs policies matter?
分析欧洲各国毒品政策的效果，发现市场机制起作用：警方查获量推高海洛因和可卡因价格，进而降低吸毒者死亡率；但压制性政策本身效果不明确，如荷兰的宽松政策反而价格低、死亡少。
Drugs policy is back on the political agenda. The prevailing repressive style of drugs policy has recently been questioned. After analysing European drugs policies, it is shown that there is no clear-cut evidence that different national drugs policy approaches really work in the expected direction. However, there are indications that the market mechanism works: prices for heroin and cocaine are positively affected by the quantity seized by police forces. Higher drug prices moderate death rates of drug addicts. However, repressive drugs policies captured not by prices but by country-specific effects do not have these clear effects. For instance, the liberal Netherlands has the lowest drug prices and a comparatively low number of deaths from drugs. Copyright Centre for Economic Policy Research, Centre for Economic Studies, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 1997.