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While the blog was out of action I noticed a lot of people linking the following article by Andrew Dickson and Bill Kaye-Blake (from Groping to Bethlehem). All the links focused on how the article made the case for a tax on sugar. That is fine and all, it was an externality case that we […]
Hello all. Here are some links I’d like to do posts on, but don’t have the time. As a result, I suggest enjoying them for yourself! VoxEU discusses banks being “too large” (to big to fail subsides). VoxEU again, on Piketty’s second fundamental law. Noah Smith with further comments on undergrad economics. Eric Crampton on […]
Via Gareth Morgan on twitter I spotted the following post from the University of Otago Public Health blog. The money quote: They found that the biggest impact of a minimum price policy was on “harmful” drinkers in the lowest income quintile (7.6% reduction in alcohol), whereas the impact on harmful drinkers in the highest income quintile […]
Via the Herald I spotted this State of the Nation report by the Salvation Army (Note: The core report can be found here). It is nicely put together, taking a whole series of publicly available data and making it fit for public consumption! Also I appreciate their focus on shining attention on issues that get […]
Why shop online? Avoid the embarrassment of mispronouncing foreign words or being viewed as a giant fattie! Nom nom nom nom… Abstract: We show that social interaction reduces the diversity of products purchased by consumers in two retail settings. First, we consider a field experiment conducted by Sweden’s monopoly alcohol retailer and find that moving […]
Vox says the data supports Matt’s priors: There is an old debate in economic theory… about whether advertising increases or decreases the prices of consumer goods. Some have argued that advertising provides information to consumers, such as information on prices or the existence of products. This information increases the degree of competition in a market, […]