The impact of a ‘soda tax’ on prices: evidence from French micro data

Nicoletta Berardi, Patrick Sevestre (), Marine Tépaut and Alexandre Vigneron
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Patrick Sevestre: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alexandre Vigneron: LEF - Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech, IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture

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Abstract: Based on an original data set of more than 500,000 non-alcoholic beverage price records, we evaluate the impact on consumer prices of the ?soda tax?, an excise on drinks with added sugar or sweetener, introduced in France in January 2012. We adopt a difference in differences approach and find that the tax was gradually passed through to the prices of the taxed beverages. After 6 months of its introduction, it was fully shifted to soda prices and almost fully shifted to the prices of fruit drinks, while the pass-through for flavoured waters was incomplete. We also find that the pass-through was heterogeneous across brands and retail groups.

Keywords: Economie; quantitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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Published in Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (41), pp.3976--3994. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2016.1150946⟩

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Working Paper: The impact of a ‘soda tax’ on prices: evidence from French micro data (2016)
Working Paper: The impact of a `soda tax' on prices. Evidence from French micro data (2012)
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