Meta-analysis of wine demand.

Summary Today, there is a particularly large body of work on wine demand. These works concern theoretical and empirical analyses of consumer behavior carried out on a large number of countries and integrating economic, demographic or sociological explanatory variables. We propose a synthetic work that allows a comparison of the results obtained by authors analyzing the demand for wine through estimates of demand elasticities. The realization of a meta-analysis allowed us to statistically compare the results obtained by the authors according to the hypotheses of estimations, the data bases used and all the factors allowing to differentiate one estimation from another. This econometric analysis allowed us to highlight the importance of taking into account socio-demographic factors in the estimation of demand.