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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment
Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109
discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
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The Tobacco Deal
Bulow, Jeremy I.; Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
We analyse the major economic issues raised by the 1997 Tobacco Resolution and the ensuing proposed legislation that were intended to settle tobacco litigation in the United States. By settling litigation largely in return for tax increases, the Resolution was a superb example of a "win-win"...
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Why is there a home bias? A case study of Wine
Friberg, Richard; Paterson, Robert W; Richardson, Andrew D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Domestic products have a disproportionately high market share on many goods markets. We examine the contribution of preferences to such "home bias", using detailed data on wine sales in New Hampshire (weekly sales by brand by store for one year). In counterfactual simulations, where we use the...
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Bottled Water - A Case of Pointless Trade?
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Two-way trade in (almost) homogenous products has ambiguous welfare effects if entry is restricted. We examine Swedish imports of bottled water to investigate whether transport cost losses from trade outweigh the partial equilibrium gains from trade (stronger competition and more brands to...
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Upstream Competition and Downstream Buyer Power
Smith, Howard; Thanassoulis, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper considers buyer power in the presence of upstream competition to supply a homogeneous product. A likely consequence of upstream competition is that each supplier is uncertain of its final output, because it does not know how many downstream buyers will select it as a seller. We...
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The Impact of the Iraq War on US Consumer Goods Sales in Arab Countries
Clerides, Sofronis; Davis, Peter; Michis, Antonis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Did the rise in anti-American sentiment caused by the Iraq war affect sales of US goods abroad? We address this question using data on soft drink and fabric detergent sales in nine Arab countries. We find a statistically significant negative impact of the war on sales of US soft drinks in seven...
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Measuring Unilateral Effects in Partial Acquisitions
Brito, Duarte; Ribeiro, Ricardo; Vasconcelos, Helder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Recent years have witnessed an increased interest, by competition agencies, in assessing the competitive effects of partial acquisitions. We propose an empirical structural methodology to examine quantitatively the unilateral impact of partial acquisitions involving pure financial interests...
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Quantifying the Coordinated Effects of Partial Horizontal Acquisitions
Brito, Duarte; Ribeiro, Ricardo; Vasconcelos, Helder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The growth of private-equity investment strategies in which firms often hold partial ownership interests in competing firms has led competition agencies to take an increased interest in assessing the competitive effects of partial horizontal acquisitions. We propose a methodology to evaluate the...
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Endogenous Entry, Product Variety, and Business Cycles
Bilbiie, Florin Ovidiu; Ghironi, Fabio; Melitz, Marc J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper builds a framework for the analysis of macroeconomic fluctuations that incorporates the endogenous determination of the number of producers and products over the business cycle. Economic expansions induce higher entry rates by prospective entrants subject to irreversible investment...
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The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States
Mertens, Karel; Ravn, Morten O - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper estimates the dynamic effects of changes in taxes in the United States. We distinguish between the effects of changes in personal and corporate income taxes using a new narrative account of federal tax liability changes in these two tax components. We develop an estimator in which...
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