The demand for alcohol literature is vast and much conflicting information about the nature
of the demand for alcoholic beverages has been published. This paper presents a survey of …

Consumer habit, an important key to repetitive consumption, is an interesting yet puzzling
phenomenon. Sometimes this consumption becomes obsessive—consumers will continue …

Over the past decade the idea that Europe experienced a centuries-long decline in
homicide, interrupted by recurrent surges and at different speeds in different parts of the …

Aim of study: This study aims to analyse how psychological factors related to the Covid-19
lockdown affected the frequency of wine consumption among Iberian consumers. Area of …

We show the estimable rational addiction model tends to yield spurious evidence in favor of
the rational addiction hypothesis when aggregate data are used. Direct application of the …

Utilizing a panel data set of 42 states over the period 1959–1994, this paper estimates a
rational addiction model for liquor consumption for the US. The empirical evidence is …

This paper adopts a multi-commodity habit formation model to study whether unhealthy
behaviors are related, ie whether there are contemporaneous and inter-temporal …

This paper mitigates previous evidence of out-performance of sin stocks–stocks of
companies involved in producing tobacco, alcohol and gaming–on the US market. It has …

We provide a revealed preference analysis of the “habits as durables” model. This approach
avoids the need to impose a functional form on the underlying utility function. We show that …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol prohibition on the consumption of alcohol and
other addictive goods. Using a series of household expenditure surveys for India, it finds that …