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Carbonated Soft Drink Choices and Obesity

Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Fantuzzi, Kristen L. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009

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Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products: The Case of Beer in the U.S.

Rojas, Christian; Peterson, Everett B. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2005

This paper employs a nation-wide sample of supermarket scanner data to estimate a large brandlevel demand system for beer in the U.S. Unlike previous studies, this work estimates the ownand cross-advertising elasticities in addition to price elasticities. The dimensionality problem is solved...

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Is Wal-Mart Good for Competition? Evidence from Milk Prices

Cleary, Rebecca L. O.; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007

This article examines the impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters’ entry on incumbents’ pricing behavior and demand. Using a structural model and milk data from the Dallas/Fort Worth supermarket chains, empirical results show that an expansion of Supercenters caused incumbents to price milk...

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How Effective is Public Policy in Decreasing Soda Consumption? An Assessment of Four Policy Options

Liu, Yizao; Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Zhu, Chen - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

This paper examines the effectiveness of four policy options to decrease the consumption of carbonated soft drinks … option and a tax on calories was found to be the weakest in terms of effectiveness in decreasing the consumption of CSDs. The … declines in the national consumption of CSDs were found to be approximately -6.3%, -15.4%, -15.5% and -15.8 for a tax …

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Entry of Wal-Mart Supercenters and Supermarkets’ Profit Margins

Liu, Xiaoou; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

This article quantifies the impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on supermarkets’ profitability via a two-stage dynamic entry game, using method of simulated moments and milk scanner data from Dallas/Fort Worth supermarkets. The empirical findings show that the entry of Wal-Mart Supercenters...

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Home Bias in U.S. Beer Consumption

Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Matschke, Xenia - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011

.S. cities over 20 quarters (1988-92) to estimate the consumers’ taste for beer characteristics (price, alcohol content, and …

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Competition Effects of Supermarket Services

Bonanno, Alessandro; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007

This article investigates the competition effects of supermarket food and non-food services using fluid milk as a case study. A simultaneous equation model for services and price competition is estimated with scanner data from 16 supermarket chains operating in six U.S. cities. Empirical results...

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Spillover and Competitive Effects of Advertising in the Carbonated Soft Drink Market

Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Liu, Yizao; Zhu, Chen - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2013

This paper examines the spillover effects of television advertising on brand-level consumer demand for carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) and the competition consequences for manufacturers’ and private label CSDs. Using a random coefficients logit model (BLP) with household purchasing and...

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