Good Times Are Drinking Times: Empirical Evidence on Business Cycles an Alcohol Sales in Sweden 1861-2000

Niclas Krüger and Mikael Svensson

No 2008:2, Working Papers from Örebro University, School of Business

Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and alcohol sales in Sweden using a data set for the years 1861-2000. Using wavelet based band-pass filtering it is found that there is a pro-cyclical relationship, i.e. alcohol sales increases in short-term economic upturns. Using moving window techniques we see that the pro-cyclical relationship holds over the entire time period. We also find that alcohol sales are a long-memory process with non-stationary behavior, i.e. a shock in alcohol sales has persistent effects

Keywords: Businesscycles:Alcohol:Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2008-05-08
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Forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.

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