, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media. In the spring of 2003, French business people even reported that … the boycott calls were hurting their U.S. sales. Using a dataset of sales of nearly 4,700 individual wine brands, we show … that there actually was no boycott effect. Rather, sales of French wine dipped for two reasons. First, they experience a …

The French Opposition to the war in Iraq in early 2003, prompted calls for a boycott of French wine in the US. We …

This paper investigates changes in cultural consumption patterns for a low concentration industry: wine and beer. Using … data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 … and consumption patterns -- although the relative consumption of wine can be explained well in 1963 by grape production …

particular industry, the California wine industry. In both a formal model and an empirical analysis, we examine the implications …

a unit of alcohol in beer, in wine and in spirits. This paper provides some new empirical evidence of what effect … consumption results from an increase in spirits taxes, followed by beer taxes and then wine taxes. This suggests that the existing … generally accepted taxation policy of placing the highest tax on spirits, a lower tax on beer, and the lowest tax on wine …

better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …

In the early 1990s, after decades of high inflation and financial repression, Argentina embarked on a course of … banking system during the liberalization process. Argentina suffered some fallout from the Mexican tequila crisis of 1995, but … discipline after the crisis made Argentina's banking system quite resilient during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian crises …

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … credit growth during crisis periods. In Argentina, the loan portfolios of foreign and domestic privately-owned banks are … lower levels of impaired assets have similar loan responsiveness and portfolios. State-owned banks (Argentina) and banks …