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Privatization, Price and Cross-Border Liquor Purchases:

J. L. Fitzgerald, H. A. Mulford

Self-report survey data were used to investigate the effects of liquor sales privatization on cross-border liquor purchases. A state survey sample representing the Iowa age 18+ noninstitutionalized population was interviewed in April 1989, some 25 months after retail spirits sales were privatized. Despite a privatization induced 6.1% increase in retail liquor prices, there was little, if any, change in the self-reported amount of liquor purchased outside the state of Iowa (J. Stud. Alcohol 54: 462-464, 1993)