Much Ado About Nothing? Smoking Bans and Germany's Hospitality Industry

Kvasnicka M, Tauchmann H (2012)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Journal

Applied economics Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Book Volume: 44

Pages Range: 4539-4551

Journal Issue: 35

DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.591739

Abstract

Over the past years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany such bans were introduced at state level at different points in time, which provides important intra-country regional variation that can be exploited to identify the effects of such bans on the hospitality industry. Using monthly data from a compulsory srvey carried out by the German Federal Statistical Office, we study the short-run effects that these bans had on establishments' sales. In contrast to the largely US-based literature, we find that moke-free policies had a negative (yet moderate) effect on establishment sales. Closure rates of businesses in the hospitality industry, however, were not significantly affected by the introduction of state smoking bans. © 2012 Taylor & Francis.

Authors with CRIS profile

Harald Tauchmann Professur für Gesundheitsökonomie

Involved external institutions

Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Research divisions ‘Labor Markets, Education, Population’ and ‘Health Economics’ DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Kvasnicka, M., & Tauchmann, H. (2012). Much Ado About Nothing? Smoking Bans and Germany's Hospitality Industry. Applied economics, 44(35), 4539-4551. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.591739

MLA:

Kvasnicka, Michael, and Harald Tauchmann. "Much Ado About Nothing? Smoking Bans and Germany's Hospitality Industry." Applied economics 44.35 (2012): 4539-4551.

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