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Table 1 Mean per-liter price by product and brand (pre-tax and after-tax)

From: Pass-through and competition: the impact of soft drink taxes as seen through Mexican supermarkets

Product

Tax

November 2013

December 2013

January 2014

Feburary 2014

Average pass-through

Water

 Bonafont (1500 ml)

No

5.13

5.23

5.69

5.58

0.45 [0.028]

 Ciel (1500 ml)

No

5.37

5.47

5.45

5.45

0.03 [0.029]

 E. Pura (1500 ml)

No

5.36

5.47

5.35

5.22

− 0.13 [0.020]

 Evian (1500 ml)

No

18.65

17.46

17.41

17.29

− 0.74 [0.020]

Soda

 Big cola (3300 ml)

Yes

4.43

4.52

5.91

6.28

1.64 [0.045]

 Coca-cola (Coke) (2500 ml)

Yes

8.45

8.51

9.79

9.65

1.24 [0.020]

 Pepsi-cola (2500 ml)

Yes

6.94

6.82

8.85

8.77

1.92 [0.069]

 Coca-cola light (2000 ml)

No

9.87

9.95

10.32

10.38

0.44 [0.021]

 Pepsi-cola light (2000 ml)

No

7.96

7.76

7.39

8.15

− 0.09 [0.099]

 7-Up (2000 ml)

Yes

7.13

7.20

8.26

8.41

1.16 [0.036]

 Fanta (2000 ml)

Yes

6.67

6.96

7.95

7.92

1.13 [0.029]

 Coca-cola (355 ml)

Yes

21.20

21.16

22.74

22.80

1.59 [0.349]

Juice

 Ades (1000 ml)

Yes

17.02

17.80

18.06

17.34

0.32 [0.062]

 Del Valle (1000 ml)

Yes

13.63

14.31

16.02

15.17

1.70 [0.069]

 Florida 7 (1000 ml)

Yes

11.54

11.17

13.53

12.26

1.55 [0.054]

 Jumex (1000 ml)

Yes

14.51

15.31

16.00

15.78

1.00 [0.047]

Sports drinks

 Enerplex (600 ml)

Yes

14.21

14.13

14.72

15.01

0.70 [0.058]

 Gatorade (600 ml)

Yes

20.50

23.03

25.44

24.90

3.42 [0.110]

 Jumex sport (600 ml)

Yes

15.18

15.85

16.10

16.06

0.56 [0.077]

Powder mix

 Frisco (1000 ml)

Yes

2.15

2.19

2.19

2.15

0.00 [0.007]

 Frutimax (1000 ml)

Yes

2.49

2.52

2.69

2.36

0.04 [0.026]

 Tang (1000 ml)

Yes

3.04

3.11

3.11

3.11

0.03 [0.011]

Other products

 Chicken breast (1 kg)

No

67.66

68.47

68.23

68.10

− 0.10 [0.003]

 Corn tortilla (1 kg)

No

9.87

9.85

9.81

9.89

− 0.02 [0.045]

  1. Compiled by the authors using data from PROFECO. We report only products with more than 1000 observations per month. Prices in Mexican pesos (MXN). The average pass-through is computed as the average prices in January and February of 2014 minus the average prices in November and December of 2013, considering the number of price observations as a weighting factor. Numbers in brackets are standard errors; calculations were made over the unbalanced sample of 607 establishments