John, Rijo M - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen per cent of the tobacco users who … addictive goods such as pan and alcohol respond to changes in prices. The spatial variations of prices that are obtained from a … elasticities showed that the own price elasticity estimates of various addictive goods in India ranged between -0.5 to -1.0 with …