This paper evaluates the impact on prices of the 2013 merger between Anheuser-Busch InBev(ABI) and Grupo Modelo and the associated court-required divestiture of Grupo Modelo’s US business to Constellation. We use difference-in-differences and event study regressions to capture firms' price...

Corporate community engagement strategy is useful means of evaluating community needs. This study examines the practice of corporate community engagement strategy of local brewery companies in Ethiopia based on Bowel et al., 2010 model. Mixed method was employed and 718 data was collected from...

Another quiet revolution is taking place in the alcoholic beverage markets: a trend toward lower-alcohol and even no-alcohol beverages, especially in the world's higher-income countries. This new trend adds to the long-term consumer trend in affluent countries of substituting quality for...

Using newly released public data on beer prices in the state of California, we construct a large dataset (approximately 2 million observations) that includes beer prices and packaging configurations. We merge this dataset with brewery attributes and county demographics to explore pricing...

The paper analyzes the performance of a sample of Italian microbreweries. For small and very small companies, performance analyses represent an important tool for the investigation of both the efficiency and the survival chances of the companies in the medium and long term. The methodology used...