In January 2014, Mexico addressed its epidemic of obesity by implementing an excise tax of 1 peso (1 MXN) per liter on … soft drinks. This study evaluates the pass-through of the tax, the influence on the tax of competition among different … stores, and the after-tax price dispersion. Using an unbalanced panel of weekly prices for 553 stores throughout Mexico, we …

Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China … several variables, we find a U-curve shaped relationship between foreign competition (measured by the China effect) and the … is much larger than the negative linear effect, we conclude that an Escape-Competition effect dominates when Mexican …