Facultad de Empresa y Comunicación, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja UNIR, Avda. de la Paz, 137, 26004, Logroño, Spain.
Department of Economics y Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Física, Matemáticas y Computación, University of Huelva, Plaza de la Merced, 11, 21002, Huelva, Spain.
Public Health. 2020 Sep;186:28-30. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.040. Epub 2020 Aug 3.
The objective of this short communication is to provide a previous empirical analysis to locate the regions that have distortions in per capita tobacco consumption. The location of these regions and their proximity to other countries allow us to detect the need that governments have to harmonize policies.
The design of this study is a cross-sectional spatial descriptive analysis.
By using panel data from the 47 Spanish provinces from 2002 to 2017, we implement the Moran's I test which allows us to detect areas where low or high per capita tobacco consumption clusters are generated.
The results show that areas of Spain bordering countries with high price differentials, such as Gibraltar and France, generate clusters of low and high per capita tobacco consumption, respectively. Indeed, maintaining a low price differential seems not to generate distortions, as revealed by the Portugal case.
Spatial clusters of per capita tobacco consumption are located in regions close to countries where there is high price differential.
本简讯的目的是提供之前的实证分析结果，以定位人均烟草消费扭曲的地区。这些地区的位置及其与其他国家的接近程度使我们能够发现政府在协调政策方面的需求。
本研究的设计是一种横截面空间描述性分析。
通过使用 2002 年至 2017 年来自西班牙 47 个省份的面板数据，我们实施了 Moran's I 检验，该检验可以帮助我们检测出低或高人均烟草消费集群产生的区域。
结果表明，与价格差异较大的国家接壤的西班牙地区，如直布罗陀和法国，分别形成了低和高人均烟草消费的集群。实际上，如葡萄牙的情况所示，保持低价格差异似乎不会产生扭曲。
人均烟草消费的空间集群位于接近价格差异较大的国家的地区。
