examines the evolution of the American sugar program from 1934 to 1987 in the light of these models. While lobbying and other … developed, and complexity of regulation served as an important factor perpetuating the sugar program. Similarly, lobbying and …

We study entry into the American sugar refining industry before World War I. We show that the price wars following two …

This paper describes information exchange under the Sugar Institute, the trade association of U.S. domestic sugar cane …

customers—that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the …

Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar refining cartel show how communication helps firms collude, and so … highlight the deficiencies in the current formal theory of collusion. The Sugar Institute did not fix prices or output. Prices …

We estimate the incidence of a relatively new type of excise tax, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). We examine …

or are considering taxes on energy-dense foods. Perhaps the most commonly-recommended policy is a tax on sugar …

duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …