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The perverse effect of sin taxes: The rise of illicit white cigarettes

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  • Aparna Mathur

    (American Enterprise Institute)

  • Roger Bate

    (American Enterprise Institute)

  • Cody Kallen

    (American Enterprise Institute)

Abstract

This paper analyzes whether taxes create a price wedge between legal and illicit cigarettes and thereby affect the availability and trade of illicit whites across markets.

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  • Aparna Mathur & Roger Bate & Cody Kallen, 2017. "The perverse effect of sin taxes: The rise of illicit white cigarettes," AEI Economics Working Papers 957068, American Enterprise Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:aei:rpaper:957068
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    1. Roger Bate, 2016. "Smoking out illicit trade: How some policies intended to limit smoking drive illegal trade," AEI Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, September.
    2. Benjamin B. Lockwood & Dmitry Taubinsky, 2017. "Regressive Sin Taxes," NBER Working Papers 23085, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Roger Bate & Ginger Zhe Jin & Aparna Mathur, 2015. "Falsified or Substandard? Assessing Price and Non‐price Signals of Drug Quality," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(4), pages 687-711, October.
    4. Roger Bate, 2016. "Smoking out illicit trade: How some policies intended to limit smoking drive illegal trade," AEI Economic Perspectives, American Enterprise Institute, September.
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