Demand elasticities for fresh meat and welfare effects of meat taxes in Germany

Roosen, Jutta; Staudigel, Matthias; Rahbauer, Sebastian

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102194

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“…Alongside setting stricter rules and standards for producers, one potential intervention could be the introduction of a tax on meat and animal products. Modelling studies show that taxing meat and animal products could have strong steering effects, thus improving public health and reducing the environmental impact 14 – 20 .…”

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Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany

Perino

Schwickert

2023

Nat Food

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A tax on meat could help address the climate impact and animal welfare issues associated with the production of meat. Through a referendum choice experiment with more than 2,800 German citizens, we elicited support for a tax on meat by varying the following tax attributes: level and differentiation thereof, justification and salience of behavioural effects. Only at the lowest tax level tested do all tax variants receive support from most voters. Support is generally stronger if the tax is justified by animal welfare rather than climate change mitigation. Differentiated taxes that link the tax rate to the harmfulness of the product do not receive higher support than a uniform tax; this indifference is not driven by a failure to anticipate the differential impacts on consumption. While the introduction of meat taxation remains politically challenging, our results underscore the need for policymakers to clearly communicate underlying reasons for the tax and its intended behavioural effect.

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Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany

Perino

Schwickert

2023

Nat Food

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“…Meat prices, when considered in the context of environmental issues and health costs, are too low because they do not internalize social costs (Funke et al, 2022; Siegrist & Hartmann, 2023). Therefore, several studies model the impact of meat taxes as a tool to reduce meat consumption and (partly) internalize the negative external effects (Roosen et al, 2022; Springmann et al, 2018). Moreover, lower prices for MS could reduce meat consumption (Apostolidis & McLeay, 2016), mitigating the associated external costs.…”

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Meat and meat substitutes—A hedonic‐pricing model for the German market

Petersen,

Tatic,

Hartmann

et al. 2023

J of Agr & App Econ Assoc

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In this study, a hedonic pricing model with a stochastic frontier is applied to a sample of 183,717 observations of product sales of sausages in Germany to determine the valuation of attributes in the market. The average price of sausages is 1.14€/100 g, with meat substitutes valued at 1.53€/100 g and meat sausages at 1.01€/100 g. Our results show that credence attributes can induce a price premium, but that the effect strongly depends on the type of attribute. This may be important for deriving marketing strategies, as uniform measures may not be effective for both markets.

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“…There is extensive literature on the impact of a carbon tax in the energy or transport sector (Andersson, 2019; Best et al, 2020; Hájek et al, 2019). The literature that deals with a carbon tax in the agriculture or food sector is also relatively broad for developed economies (Briggs et al, 2013; Caillavet et al, 2019; Forero‐Cantor et al, 2020; Roosen et al, 2022; Säll, 2018) but is limited in the context of emerging or developing economies (Renner et al, 2018; Saelim, 2019; Sofyan, 2011). Further, most of the previous literature uses estimated elasticities from empirical demand systems to approximate the welfare change measured by compensating variation (CV) (Roosen et al, 2022; Säll, 2018).…”

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Carbon tax on milk products and the exact consumer welfare measure in emerging economies

Wehner,

2023

Agribusiness

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Current milk prices do not account for the emissions, environmental externalities, and the excessive resource use that occur during milk production. Imposing a “carbon tax on food” can be a very effective climate change mitigation policy and the ultimate distributional effect depends heavily on the way the tax is implemented. To offset the regressive financial effect, redistribution measures need to be designed and the financial welfare loss can serve as a first orientation for designing these redistribution measures. Current literature mainly uses estimated elasticities from empirical demand systems to approximate the welfare change which can lead to a substantial bias if the tax rate is sufficiently large. In contrast, we calculate the welfare change by using the Exact Consumer Welfare of a carbon tax on milk for selected emerging economies. We show that on average, consumers in upper‐middle‐income economies would face a financial welfare loss of 19.4–176.9 USD (in the value of 2017) measured by the compensating variation (CV), depending on the tax scenario. Among a set of 16 emerging economies, consumers in Argentina (ARG) and Türkiye (TUR) face the highest financial welfare losses. We also find that discrepancies between the Exact Consumer Welfare and the consumer surplus are very small. [EconLit Citations: Q11, Q18].

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Demand elasticities for fresh meat and welfare effects of meat taxes in Germany

Cited by 32 publications

References 33 publications

Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany

Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany

Meat and meat substitutes—A hedonic‐pricing model for the German market

Carbon tax on milk products and the exact consumer welfare measure in emerging economies

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