Price-Raising Drug Enforcement and Property Crime: A Dynamic Model

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-253

  Caulkins, Jonathan P ^a   Dworak, Maria ^b   Feichtinger, Gustav ^b   Tragler, Gernot ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming optimal control: applications to drug policy; Judicial legal: crime and drug policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344199597     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01228742     Document Type: Article

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