Red obsession: The ascent of fine wine in China

Philippe Masset, Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, Benoît Faye and Eric Le Fur

Emerging Markets Review, 2016, vol. 29, issue C, 200-225

Abstract: This article uses hammer prices from five global auction houses to analyse the price premium Bordeaux fine wine yielded at Hong Kong wine auctions. We find that fine wine was on average sold at a 19% premium in Hong Kong. We further observe that the Hong Kong premium is not uniform and most pronounced for wines with perfect Parker scores and the most powerful brands. The premium has declined throughout the sample period from 60% in 2008 to a level of 15% since 2012. This can be attributed to the increase in knowledge on fine wine by Chinese customers.

Keywords: Hong Kong; China; Auction hammer prices; Fine wine; Premium; Hedonic regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 F14 Q11 Q14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2016.08.014

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