TY  - JOUR
ID  - publications22362
UR  - http://tse-fr.eu/pub/30797
A1  - Réquillart, Vincent
A1  - Soler, Louis-Georges
A1  - Zang, Yu
Y1  - 2016/12//
N2  - The goal of this paper is to better understand firms' strategic reactions to nutritional policies targeting food quality improvements and to derive optimal policies. We propose a model of product differentiation, taking into account the taste and health characteristics of products. We study how two firms react to alternative policies: an MQS policy, linear taxation of the two goods on the market, and taxation of the lowquality good. The MQS and the taxation of the low-quality product are the preferred options by a social planner. If taste is moderately important, the MQS policy is chosen by a populist and a paternalist social planner. If taste is a major component of choice, the populist planner chooses to tax the low-quality product whereas the paternalist planner prefers the MQS policy. Finally, for a paternalist social planner, an MQS-based policy always allows for higher levels of welfare than an information policy alone.
PB  - Elsevier
JF  - Journal of Health Economics
VL  - 50
KW  - Taxation
KW  - MQS
KW  - Product differentiation
KW  - Strategic pricing
KW  - Nutritional policy
SN  - 0167-6296
TI  - Quality standards versus nutritional taxes: Health and welfare impacts with strategic firms
SP  - 268
AV  - none
EP  - 285
ER  -