Impact of domestic content requirement on the US tobacco and cigarette industries
使用对数线性均衡位移模型量化了美国国内烟草成分要求对卷烟制造的影响,发现该政策增加了国产烟草使用量但导致小幅负面产出效应,烟草进口大幅减少,并讨论了制造商遵守政策的政治经济激励。
Abstract Using a log‐linear equilibrium displacement model we quantify the impact of the recent domestic tobacco content requirement on US cigarette manufacturing. We investigate effects on US growers and manufacturers, and competing tobacco imports. The policy increased domestic use of US‐grown tobacco, but induced a small negative output effect. Tobacco imports decreased substantially. The paper also discusses the political–economic incentives for US manufacturers to comply with such policies. The political cooperation between US growers and manufacturers decreases the opposition of the latter to protectionist policies championed by the former.