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Revisiting an important Canadian natural experiment with new methods: an evaluation of the impact of the 1994 tax decrease on smoking.
Merrigan, Philip; Gardes, François - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2014
The panel structure of the Survey on Smoking in Canada (1994-95) and novel methods are used to estimate the impact of … particularly sensitive to these dramatic changes in cigarette prices. We also compute under realistic assumptions a price …-elasticity for the probability of smoking and a lower bound on the price-elasticity for the quantities of cigarettes smoked. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756077
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Le comportement des producteurs de biens addictifs légaux : implications d'une demande avec interactions sociales.
Massin, Sophie - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009
This article analyzes the behavior of a producer of a legal addictive good (tobacco, alcohol or gambling) facing a demand with social interactions, especially a deterrence effect of heavy use on initiation. We simulate an epidemic model to estimate at what conditions it could be interesting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012517
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La notion d'addiction en économie : la théorie du choix rationnel à l'épreuve.
Massin, Sophie - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008
The aim of this article is to analyze the economic literature from the last thirty years in the field of addiction and …, which were previously excluded from the analysis. Recent developments of the economic theory of addiction, via behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696748