Forty years of price transmission research in the food industry: Insights, challenges and prospects

T Lloyd - Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Price transmission refers to a process via which information is transmitted between
participants in a market. Focusing on vertical markets such as the food chain, this Address …

A new wave of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: Are they meeting policy goals and can we do better?

K Kiesel, H Lang, RJ Sexton - Annual Review of Resource …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Little progress has been made in reducing deaths from chronic noncommunicable diseases
associated with being overweight or obese worldwide, prompting the World Health …

Changes in prices after an excise tax to sweetened sugar beverages was implemented in Mexico: evidence from urban areas

MA Colchero, JC Salgado, M Unar-Munguía, M Molina… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
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 well targeted are soda taxes?

P Dubois, R Griffith, M O'Connell - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
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 …

The impact of a 'soda tax'on prices: evidence from French micro data

N Berardi, P Sevestre, M Tepaut, A Vigneron - Applied Economics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Based on an original data set of more than 500,000 non-alcoholic beverage price records,
we evaluate the impact on consumer prices of the 'soda tax', an excise on drinks with added …

The pass‐through of taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages to retail prices: the case of Berkeley, California

J Cawley, DE Frisvold - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity and diet‐related chronic disease are increasing problems worldwide. In response,
many governments have enacted or are considering taxes on energy‐dense foods. Perhaps …

Competition and pass-through: evidence from isolated markets

C Genakos, M Pagliero - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We measure how pass-through varies with competition in isolated oligopolistic markets with
captive consumers. Using daily pricing data from gas stations on small Greek islands, we …

An environmental tax towards more sustainable food: empirical evidence of the consumption of animal products in France

C Bonnet, Z Bouamra-Mechemache, T Corre - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural production is among the industries with the highest impact on the environment in
terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially in the production of ruminant meats …

Designing a tax to discourage unhealthy food and beverage purchases: the case of Chile

JC Caro, SW Ng, LS Taillie, BM Popkin - Food Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The global shift towards diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and energy dense
ultra-processed foods is linked to higher prevalence of obesity, diabetes and most other non …

The effect of prices on nutrition: comparing the impact of product-and nutrient-specific taxes

M Harding, M Lovenheim - Journal of health economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper provides an analysis of the role of prices in determining food purchases and
nutrition using very detailed transaction-level observations for a large, nationally …