Is competition among soft drinks, juices, and other major beverage categories responsible for reducing Americans' milk consumption?

Autor: Hayden Stewart, Fred Kuchler, William F. Hahn
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Agribusiness. 37:731-748
ISSN: 1520-6297
0742-4477
DOI: 10.1002/agr.21706
Popis: US per capita milk consumption has been falling since the 1940s and falling at an accelerated rate in recent years. One possible reason is competition between it and other types of beverages. In this study, we determine whether changes in beverage prices are in a direction and of a sufficient magnitude for consumption trends to be explained by price competition between milk and other beverages. They are not. We also estimate a vector autoregressive model using data on households' average weekly purchases of milk and four other, major beverage categories for a very general test of whether any increase in sales of those other beverages would come at milk's expense. Results again suggest that competition between milk and the identified other major beverages is not responsible for milk's accelerated decline, and there is a need for the research community to investigate other possible explanations. [EconLit Citations: D12, Q11, Q18].
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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