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The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children
Cawley, John - 2018
In recent years, numerous U.S. cities have enacted taxes on sweetened beverages, but there is relatively little evidence about the effects of these taxes on purchases and consumption. In this paper, we examine the effects of the beverage tax of 1.5 cents per ounce that was implemented in...
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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014
suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …
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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of … advertising. Heterogeneity in brand preferences explains 40 percent of geographic variation in market shares. These preferences … years in the past still exerting a significant effect on current consumption. Counterfactuals suggest that brand preferences …
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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century after the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2014
. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069176
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Misfortune and Mistake : The Financial Conditions and Decision-Making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers
Carvalho, Leandro - 2020
The appropriateness of many high-cost loan regulations depends on whether demand is driven by financial conditions (“misfortunes”) or imperfect decisions (“mistakes”). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers are especially illiquid just before getting a loan, but that some spend the...
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Dynamic Corrective Taxes with Time-Varying Salience
Gilbert, Ben - 2018
The intermittency of payment for many goods creates a disconnect between paying and consuming such that the marginal price is not always salient when consumption decisions are made. This paper derives optimal dynamic corrective taxes when there are externalities as well as internalities from...
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Smokers’ Rational Lexicographic Preferences for Cigarette Package Warnings : A Discrete Choice Experiment with Eye Tracking
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2018
We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with varying warnings and background colors. Each smoker had to decide which of the two packages contained cigarettes less risky for his health. We tested whether the smokers, confronted...
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Willingness to Pay for Clean Air : Evidence from Air Purifier Markets in China
Ito, Koichiro - 2016
We develop a framework to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for clean air from defensive investment. Applying this framework to product-by-store level scanner data on air purifier sales in China, we provide among the first revealed preference estimates of WTP for clean air in developing...
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Reservation Prices : An Economic Analysis of Cigarette Purchases on Indian Reservations
DeCicca, Philip - 2014
The special legal status of Indian tribes in the U.S. means that state excise taxes are not necessarily collected on cigarette purchases on Indian reservations. We focus on two under-studied but basic empirical economic questions this raises. Using novel data from New York surveys that asked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039707
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Are Consumers Poorly Informed About Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments
Allcott, Hunt - 2017
It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing fuel economy information to new vehicle...
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