The prices of alcoholic beverages in the Nordic countries.

摘要: Apart from Denmark, all the Nordic countries have state-owned monopolies which handle of off-premise retail sales wine and spirits. In some countries, state monopoly also distributes strong medium-strong beer. This paper discusses how prices beer, spirits are set in compares setting each. The shows that there great differences both between alcoholic beverages price-fixing mechanisms. main part price differential is due to taxation, but substantial discrepancies still exist when we look at exclusive alcohol taxes. reason for this be found profits efficiency producing distributing beverages. According our data, it seems more effective than firms Danish market.