This paper contributes to the economics and econometrics literature on unilateral effects analysis. It introduces the Rotterdam demand system; considers the effect and importance of demand restrictions for minimizing the mean squared error of price simulations; demonstrates that approximate...

The current obesity crisis in the United States is generating numerous alternative policy options for combating the problem. One alternative that has been widely proposed is an excise or sales tax on sugar-sweetened non-alcoholic beverages. This literature started out within a very simple...

In this study we modeled demand interrelationships of at-home nonalcoholic beverage consumption in the United States using a unique data set developed using Nielsen HomeScan panel data of household purchases of nonalcoholic beverages over the period January 1998 through December 2003. We used 72...

Fluid milk consumption has been on a decline in the United States for several years. The check off program funded by producers and processors of fluid milk provides generic advertising targeted at fluid milk consumption. Exploring how generic advertising affects fluid milk type consumption...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting consumer demand for and the effects on tax on sparkling and non-sparkling bottled water in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: Using nationally representative data from 62,092 households and tobit econometric...

Soymilk is one of the fastest growing categories in the U.S dairy alternative functional beverage market. Using household-level purchase data from Nielsen’s 2008 Homescan panel and the Tobit econometric procedure, we estimate conditional and unconditional own-price, cross-price, and...

Bottled water has become the second largest in the nonalcoholic beverage market just behind the market for soft drinks. Knowledge of price sensitivity, substitutes or complements, and demographic profiling and tax issues with respect to consumption of sparkling and non-sparkling bottled water is...