This book addresses the important issue of food prices across EU Member States. Although recent attention has focused on events in world commodity markets following the spikes in world prices in 2007-2008 and 2011, there has been comparatively little attention addressing food price dynamics at...

The question whether alcohol in general, and different types of alcoholic beverages in particular (e.g., beer) are normal or inferior goods is a heavily disputed issue within economics and health research. Based on recently developed theories of preference adjustment this paper argues that the...

The paper uses micro cross-section data from the GfK consumer panel for econometric demand analysis of private households in Germany. Contrary to most research which considered "average" behavior we extend this approach to consumer behavior for different "intensities" of consumption. Our...