Aims Tobacco tax increases are the most effective means of reducing tobacco use and
inequalities in smoking, but effectiveness depends on transnational tobacco company (TTC) …

This article reviews literature on competitiveness of agricultural product and input markets.
Although researchers in the United States and Europe emphasize different stages of the …

In 2014 an excise tax to non-alcoholic sweetened beverages (SSB) was implemented in
Mexico. The objective of this paper is to study whether and to what degree these taxes …

How to understand and respond to inflation has become one of the central debates of this
economic recovery. This research brief is the first to explore the size and distribution of …

Tobacco use is the single largest cause of preventable death globally, killing more than five
million people each year. Tobacco use also creates considerable economic costs, from …

The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating
energy tax policy, yet the literature testing the main predictions of the tax incidence model is …

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. We assess who is most impacted
by soda taxes. We estimate demand using micro longitudinal data covering on-the-go …

Using the 2006 Homescan panel, we estimate the changes in energy, fat and sodium
purchases resulting from a tax that increases the price of sugar-sweetened beverages …

A unified treatment of the marginal cost of public funds, covering both its theoretical
foundations and how the MCF concept can be used to analyze tax policy issues. The …

In this paper it is argued that imperfect competition should be given more attention by
agricultural economists as the characteristics of food markets in Europe (and elsewhere) …