Consumer Casualties

Junmin Wan is Professor of Economics at Fukuoka University, Japan.

1. Introduction 2. Rational Addiction with an Optimal Inventory: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Daily and Monthly Purchases 3. Response to Health Information: Theory and Evidence from Cigarette Consumption and Intake of Nicotine and Tar in Japan 4. Responses of Consumers to the Mandatory Disclosure of information: Evidence from Japanese Inter-brand Cigarette Sales 5. Is Gambling Addictive? Evidence from Pachinko Participation, Quitting, and Re-Initiating 6. Are Gambling and Smoking Complementary? Direct Tests from Japanese Individual Data 7. Tax Revenue in China and the Incentive to Declare Taxes: The Lottery Receipt Experiment 8. Is the Life-Cycle Model or Ono's Model Most Suitable for the Japanese?: Analysis by Time-Series Data and Surveys of Lottery Purchase and Large-Prize Winners 90 9. Conclusions