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Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU: A Legal-Economic Perspective Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Obesity, Fat Taxes and Their Effects on Consumers

verfasst von : Silke Thiele, Jutta Roosen

Erschienen in: Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU

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Abstract

Given the rise in obesity rates, regulators have started to think about new regulatory instruments. Among those are fat taxes which are discriminatory taxes charged on nutrients at risk of excess supply in modern diets. This chapter offers a discussion of the intended and unintended consequences of fat taxes. First, it gives an economic perspective on the causes and effects of obesity. In this light possible regulatory approaches are briefly discussed. The main contribution is the assessment of fat taxes, first listing recent European regulations before reviewing the literature on the effect of fat taxes. Given limited experiences with fat taxes so far, various uncertainties in the ex ante assessment of their effects exist.

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Fußnoten
1
WHO (2015).
 
2
OECD (2014).
 
3
See Seidell (2005) for a genesis on definition and measure of obesity.
 
4
WHO (2015).
 
5
Deckelbaum and Williams (2001).
 
6
WHO (2015).
 
7
Sims (1998).
 
8
Grossman (1972).
 
9
Philipson and Posner (2003).
 
10
Cawley (2004).
 
11
Cash et al. (2005).
 
12
Yaniv et al. (2009).
 
13
OECD (2012).
 
14
Aue et al. (2016).
 
15
Torres and Nowson (2007).
 
16
Wilde (2011).
 
17
Lynch et al. (1997).
 
18
Wilde (2011).
 
19
Visschers and Seidell (2001).
 
20
Seidell (2005).
 
21
WHO (2009).
 
22
Philipson and Posner (2003).
 
23
Dobbs et al. (2014).
 
24
Lehnert et al. (2015).
 
25
Cawley (2004).
 
26
Mazzocchi et al. (2009).
 
27
Alemanno and Carreño (2013).
 
28
Becker (2006).
 
29
The evidence on the tax types and levels are taken and summarized from ECORYS (2014).
 
30
Smed and Robertson (2012).
 
31
ECORYS (2014).
 
32
Petkantchin (2013).
 
33
Mytton et al. (2007).
 
34
Allais et al. (2010).
 
35
Smed et al. (2007).
 
36
Tiffin and Salois (2014).
 
37
ECORYS (2014).
 
38
Bahl et al. (2003).
 
39
Jensen and Smed (2013).
 
40
French et al. (1997).
 
41
French et al. (2001).
 
42
Jeffery et al. (1994).
 
43
Michels et al. (2008).
 
44
Block et al. (2010).
 
45
Epstein et al. (2012).
 
46
Giesen et al. (2011).
 
47
Yang and Chiou (2010).
 
48
Chouinard et al. (2007).
 
49
Smed et al. (2007).
 
50
Tiffin and Salois (2014).
 
51
Finkelstein et al. (2013).
 
52
Réquillart and Soler (2014).
 
53
Allais et al. (2015).
 
54
Bogart (2013).
 
55
Cash et al. (2007).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Obesity, Fat Taxes and Their Effects on Consumers
verfasst von
Silke Thiele
Jutta Roosen
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Regulating and Managing Food Safety in the EU

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-77043-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-77045-1

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77045-1_9