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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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Do Firms Use Coupons and In-store Discounts to Strategically Market Experience Goods Over the Consumption Life-Cycle? The Case of Cigarettes

Sfekas, Andrew; Lillard, Dean R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

whether firms discount cigarettes in ways consistent with a life-cycle consumption model. We find that the three highest …

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House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices

Stroebel, Johannes; Vavra, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We use detailed micro data to document a causal response of local retail price to changes in house prices, with elasticities of 15%-20% across housing booms and busts. Notably, these price responses are largest in zip codes with many homeowners, and non-existent in zip codes with mostly renters....

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Measuring the Economic Effect of Global Warming on Viticulture Using Auction, Retail, and Wholesale Prices

Ashenfelter, Orley; Storchmann, Karl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In this paper we measure the effect of year to year changes in the weather on wine prices and winery revenue in the Mosel Valley in Germany in order to determine the effect that climate change is likely to have on the income of wine growers. A novel aspect of our analysis is that we compare the...

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French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

Ashenfelter, Orley; Ciccarella, Stephen M. Ciccarella, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for a war to depose Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In response, calls in the United States for a boycott of French products, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media....

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Measuring Market Power in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry

Nevo, Aviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

The ready-to-eat cereal industry is characterized by high concentration margins, large advertising to sales ratios, and numerous introductions of new products. Previous researchers have concluded that the ready-to-eat cereal industry is a classic example of an industry with nearly collusive...

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The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies

Ashenfelter, Orley; Hosken, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

In this paper we propose a method to evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. horizontal merger policy and apply it to the study of five recent consumer product mergers. We selected the mergers from those that, from the public record, seemed to be most problematic for the antitrust agencies. Thus we...

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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Shapiro, Jesse; Bronnenberg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We estimate the effect of information and expertise on consumers’ willingness to pay for national brands in physically homogeneous product categories. In a detailed case study of headache remedies we find that more informed or expert consumers are less likely to pay extra to buy national...

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What Drives Aggregate Investment?

Bachmann, Rüdiger; Zorn, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to gauge their contribution to short-run investment...

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Firms' Optimism and Pessimism

Bachmann, Rüdiger; Elstner, Steffen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Are firms' expectations systematically too optimistic or too pessimistic? Does it matter? We use micro data from the West German manufacturing subset of the IFO Business Climate Survey to infer quarterly production changes at the firm level and combine them with production expectations over a...

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