I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …

is some evidence of a slight reduction in adults' overall sugar consumption from sweetened beverages, with larger … evidence about the effects of these taxes on purchases and consumption. In this paper, we examine the effects of the beverage … purchases and consumption of beverages. We find that purchases of taxed beverages fell by 8.9 ounces per shopping trip in …

We estimate the incidence of a relatively new type of excise tax, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We examine …

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are growing in popularity and have generated an active public debate. Are they a … remarkable quantities of sugar-sweetened beverages, and the evidence suggests that this generates significant health costs … costs from diseases caused by sugary drink consumption; (2) internalities: costs consumers impose on themselves by consuming …

or are considering taxes on energy-dense foods. Perhaps the most commonly-recommended policy is a tax on sugar …

to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies ‘sugar islands' from the year of slave …

the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country … duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when …

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …