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 …

Live streaming social commerce, a booming branch of online retailing, has enabled online
retailers to interact with customers face to face, defying spatial restrictions. Recent research …

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with
added sugar, popularly referred to as a “soda tax,” effective January 2014. Since the tax took …

This paper studies tax shifting of excise taxes on alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages in
Denmark. We use a unique data set collected by Statistics Denmark focusing on six …

This paper uses UPC-level data to examine the relationship between excise taxes, retail
prices, and consumer welfare in the distilled spirits market. We document a nominal rigidity …

This article explains why platforms such as Amazon and Visa rely predominantly on ad
valorem fees, fees which increase proportionally with transaction prices. It also provides a …

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with
added sugar, popularly referred to as a “soda tax,” effective January 2014. I analyze data on …

This paper presents a parsimonious model of the bricks-and-mortar entry choice of online
retailers in light of consumer sales taxes. On the one hand, a retailer benefits by entry since …

Random utility models are widely used to study consumer choice. The vast majority of
applications assume utility is linear in consumption of the outside good, which imposes that …

Retail‐price pass‐through is one of the most important issues facing manufacturers of
consumer packaged goods. Although retailers tend to pass higher wholesale prices through …