Associations of a national tax on non-essential high calorie foods with changes in consumer prices

AbstractOur interest has focused on the investigation of the anti-obese potential of kidney beans (P. vulgaris) pods extract. In the course of the study, obesity development in rats was induced with high-calorie diet. Control and obese rats then have consumed with aqueous kidney beans (P. vulgaris) pods extract during 6 weeks (200 mg/kg). Results show that the long-term consumption of P. vulgaris pods extract can lead to the reduction of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance development. Furthermore, we saw a normalization of lipid peroxidation parameters and oxidative modification of protein due to the consumption of the kidney beans (P. vulgaris) pods extract. Our experimental data demonstrate the ability of the kidney beans (P. vulgaris) pod extracts to mitigate obesity development but the details of this mechanism remains to be not fully understood.

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An econometric analysis of retail turnover in Russia

Economic Analysis Theory and Practice ◽

10.24891/ea.19.6.1133 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (6) ◽

pp. 1133-1153

Author(s):

A.T. Kozinova

Keyword(s):

Household Income ◽

Inflation Targeting ◽

Import Substitution ◽

Consumer Price Index ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Econometric Analysis ◽

Retail Trade ◽

Economic Instability ◽

Consumer Prices ◽

Macroeconomic Indicators

Subject. The article deals with econometric analysis of retail turnover in Russia and its relationship with macroeconomic indicators, like real disposable household income, consumer prices, etc. Objectives. The purpose is to create effective models to analyze the retail turnover in Russia and its relationship with other macroeconomic indicators, taking into account the existence of periods of economic instability. Methods. I apply correlation and regression methods to analyze statistics. To quantify changes in the retail turnover of Russia during the periods of economic instability, I use dummy variables. Results. The Russia’s retail trade turnover index had a reverse and moderate relationship with the consumer price index, direct and strong relationship with the indices of real disposable household income and imports, direct relationship with the manufacturing index. I offer statistically significant regression models of Russia’s retail turnover with the said macroeconomic indicators. Conclusions. The main advantage of models of retail turnover that are built using a large number of observations is a greater number of simultaneously considered factors. The quantitative assessment of retail turnover elasticity by consumer prices confirms the need for inflation targeting by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The higher elasticity of retail turnover in manufacturing as compared with the imports denotes the importance of import substitution policy.

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Consumer prices and pricing policies in the marketing effort. (c1985)

10.26756/th.1985.12 ◽

1985 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander M. Mandoyan

Keyword(s):

Marketing Effort ◽

Pricing Policies ◽

Consumer Prices

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Global Food Commodity Prices and Domestic Food Inflation: Some Insights from Morocco

New Medit ◽

10.30682/nm2003d ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Ahmed EL GHIN ◽

Mounir EL-KARIMI

Keyword(s):

Exchange Rate Regime ◽

Commodity Prices ◽

Food Prices ◽

Consumer Prices ◽

Floating Exchange Rate ◽

Pass Through ◽

The Impact ◽

Food Inflation ◽

Global Food ◽

Domestic Food

This paper examines the world commodity prices pass-through to food inflation in Morocco, over the period 2004-2018, by using Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) model on monthly data. Several interesting results are found from this study. First, the impact of global food prices on domestic food inflation is shown significant, which reflects the large imported component in the domestic food consumption basket. Second, the transmission effect is found to vary across commodities. Consumer prices of cereals and oils significantly and positively respond to external price shocks, while those of dairy and beverages are weakly influenced. Third, there is evidence of asymmetries in the pass-through from world to domestic food prices, where external positive shocks generate a stronger local prices response than negative ones. This situation is indicative of policy and market distortions, namely the subsidies, price controls, and weak competitive market structures. Our findings suggest that food price movements should require much attention in monetary policymaking, especially that the country has taken preliminary steps towards the adoption of floating exchange rate regime.

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