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Hamilton, Stephen F. and Réquillart, Vincent
(2017)
Market Competition and the Health Composition of Manufactured Food.
Health Economics, 26 (n°12).
pp. 1637-1643.
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Abstract
There has been surprisingly little research to date on the supply-side role of food manufacturers on equilibrium health outcomes for consumers. In this letter we consider an oligopoly model in which food processors choose the health composition of manufactured food. We show that price competition between food processors leads to unhealthy food composition in the market equilibrium, even under circumstances in which consumers know food composition is unhealthy. Taxes on manufactured food decrease the healthiness of manufactured foods whenever improved consumer health increases the price elasticity of food demand.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | December 2017 |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | food design, consumer health, manufactured food, nutritional policies |
| JEL Classification: | I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 04 May 2017 08:15 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:55 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:31655 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/24027 |
