Deng, Xueting; Zheng, Yuqing; Butler, John S. - In: Journal of applied economics 26 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper examines the role of addiction in influencing the demand for e-cigarettes using the Nielsen Retail Scanner … larger than the estimates of the short-run price elasticity of demand for e-cigarettes. Estimates of both long-run and short …-run elasticities are greater than one, -1.50 and -1.05, suggesting e-cigarette demand is elastic in both the long run and short run. …