This paper uses sixty-five recent tax changes on liquor in private licensed states over the period 1960-83 to update Simon's quasi-experimental price elasticity of liquor. Three alternative measures for liquor prices are used, and the sensitivity of this price elasticity to border effect...

This paper updates the Lyon and Simon quasi-experimental price elasticities of cigarette demand and studies their sensitivity to changes in the cigarette market over time as well as their sensitivity to the effects of bootlegging. The results indicate a downward trend in these elasticities over...

This paper uses 336 state tax changes across the U.S. spanning 42 years (1956–1997) to provide an updated look at the quasi-experimental price elasticities of cigarette demand. It also studies the sensitivity of these elasticity estimates to changes in the cigarette market over time as well as...