EMPIRICAL ESTIMATES OF THE IMPACT OF A FAT TAX

Session	Health Care
Session Chair	Xavier Martinez-Giralt Xavier, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Presenter(s)	Martin O'Connell, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Co-Author(s)	Rachel Griffith, and Lars Nesheim, CEMMAP, IFS, UCL
Keywords	Discrete choice and Fat tax
JEL Codes	I18, L00

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We estimate the impacts of a tax on saturated fats. We are particularly interested in what impact such a tax would have in markets where products are differentiated and fi…rms have market power. We use a discrete choice demand model and household purchase level data to estimate responses to a fat tax.

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Thu 3 Sep 2009

14:00 - 15:30

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