Are alcohol tax hikes fully passed through to prices? Evidence from Alaska

By D. Kenkel. 2005

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$2.00 Gas! Studying the Effects of a Gas Tax Moratorium (2008, unknown): “Kenkel (2005) studied establishment-level prices and found similar over-shifting in the market for alcoholic beverages in Alaska.”
Effects of beverage alcohol price and tax levels on drinking: a meta-analysis of 1003 estimates from 112 studies. (2009, background): “As Kenkel [11] notes, economic theory predicts taxes will be fully passed through to consumers, given a competitive environment with constant marginal costs of production, and such a one-to-one pass through is a ―standard assumption‖ in most of the research on alcohol taxes or prices.”