and wine taxes were raised sharply and unexpectedly in 2009. Beer taxes were increased by only a trivial amount. We …

related to the real price of beer and to the minimum legal age for its purchase and consumption. The negative price and legal …, we find that the frequency of the consumption of beer, the most popular alcoholic beverage among youths, is inversely … drinking age effects are by no means limited to reductions in the fraction of youths who consume beer infrequently (less than …

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 …

positively related to this variable. Clearly, these are policy-relevant findings since price is a policy-manipulable variable …

responses to rivals' price advertising and find that small, non-advertising stores raise their prices of products advertised by … rivals beyond their baseline price increase, while larger, advertising stores raise by less their prices of rival …-advertised products. We find no reductions in price dispersion across stores with the introduction of price advertising. However, those …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the price of alcoholic beverages and the incidence of … violence is well documented, as is the negative relationship between the quantity of alcohol consumed and its price. These two … reduced form model is estimated where the probability of being a victim of violent crime is determined by the price of alcohol …

, 70 percent of energy price-driven changes in input costs get passed through to consumers in the short- to medium-run. The …