IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eti/rdpsjp/12019.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Beer and Low Malt Beer Taxation and Welfare in Japan (Japanese)

Author

Listed:
  • KEIDA Masayuki

Abstract

We present a quantitative evaluation of welfare losses stemming from beer and low malt beer taxation. For evaluating economic welfare, we build a standard model of consumers' utility maximization. In this model, we find that the price elasticity of demand has a key role in evaluating welfare. Therefore, we estimate the price elasticity of demand using scanner data. The result shows that the price elasticity of demand is about 4.3, based on our estimates using high frequency data. This indicates that welfare losses due to taxation on low malt beer are about 240 billion yen.

Suggested Citation

  • KEIDA Masayuki, 2012. "Beer and Low Malt Beer Taxation and Welfare in Japan (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese) 12019, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:12019
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/12j019.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:12019. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: TANIMOTO, Toko (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rietijp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.