Journal article
The Effect of Sunday Sales Bans and Excise Taxes on Drinking and Cross-Border Shopping for Alcoholic Beverages
National tax journal, v 60(1), pp 85-105
01 Mar 2007
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Abstract
State excise taxes and Sunday sales bans are important interventions in the markets for beer and spirits. This paper estimates the effect of these policies on within-state and cross-state purchases of beer and spirits for 50 states plus the District of Columbia over the period 1990-2004. The results indicate that while demand for both spirits and beer appears to be quite price elastic, 20% to 40% of the elasticity for spirits is due to displacement of sales across state borders rather than decreases in own-state drinking. The paper also finds that although repeal of a Sunday sales ban leads to an increase in the sale of spirits, much of the increase in sales of beer is due to a continuation of pre-existing trends in those states that repealed their bans.
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- Title
- The Effect of Sunday Sales Bans and Excise Taxes on Drinking and Cross-Border Shopping for Alcoholic Beverages
- Creators
- Mark Stehr
- Publication Details
- National tax journal, v 60(1), pp 85-105
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000246114600005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-34249860914
- Other Identifier
- 991019168503704721
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