The impact of a `soda tax' on prices. Evidence from French micro data

Nicoletta Berardi, Patrick Sevestre, M. Tepaut and A. Vigneron

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Abstract: Based on a unique database consisting of hundreds of thousands of non-alcoholic beverage price records collected in about 800 supermarkets in France, we evaluate the impact on prices of the soda tax, an excise on drinks with added sugar or sweetener, introduced in January 2012 in France. We adopt a difference in differences approach and find that the tax was passed-through to consumer prices gradually over the first semester of 2012. After 6 months, the tax was fully shifted to soda prices while the pass-through to prices of fruit drinks and flavored waters was not complete. We also find that the impact of this tax was different across retailing groups and beverage brands.

Keywords: Excise tax; beverage; added sugar; tax incidence; price adjustment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D22 H22 L81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2012
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