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Drug markets - price making analysis
Rössl, Karel ; Běláčková, Vendula (advisor) ; Houdek, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with economic theory and research of the drug markets. Analysis of the literature compares individual approaches to theories by present authors, including their conclusions on data for the U.S. Established hypotheses based on the conclusions of analyzed literature are tested mainly using regression analysis on the available Czech data, where data on marihuana markets have high interdependency. The effects of selected variables on the price of drugs, which is a key characteristic of drug markets, are tested on data for the EU-27. The work describes trends in European drug markets and provides evidence on the influence of the variables on the price of drugs.
Prohibition vs. decriminalization - two different approaches to the drug abuse problem
Tomány, Lubomír ; Šťastný, Daniel (advisor) ; Hudík, Marek (referee)
The main subject of this study is a comparation of two different policies which are used to cope with the drug abuse problem - prohibition and decriminalization. Example is set on the U.S. and the Netherlands. First, each policy is described in detail. Subsequently, both policies are compared according to criteria of the drug use prevalence and the direct costs related with them. The Netherlands, which applies decriminalization, has maintained lower drug use prevalence than the U.S for long time and in almost all kinds of drugs and age groups. Moreover, Netherlands it achieves at the same or lower relative costs. Yet, the higher drug use prevalence does not prove ineffectiveness of policy prohibition. It seems that the U.S. is more likely to have higher prevalence due to more general tendency of using drugs in population. The study also shows that the decriminalization can be linked to increase of drug use that followed its introduction in Netherlands.

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