predicted increase in concentration lead to price increases of two percent, but at the mean this was offset by a nearly equal …

beer manufacturers to have exclusive territory clauses in their agreements with distributors. To identify the effect, I …

build off of the fact that in the past thirty years in the U.S. beer industry, as the number of beer producers (i.e. brewers …

(1) Background: Big brewers, which have experienced declining sales for their beer brands in the last decade, have been … barrels per year) taking advantage of the increasing sales of craft beer by emulating these products or by acquiring craft … ownership of U.S. mainstream and craft beer brands was decoded and visualized. In addition, an exploratory case study analyzed …

product variety in the U.S. beer industry. Upon acquisition by a macrobrewer, a craft brewery reduce its product variety in … in the impact of mergers on non-price market outcomes. In this paper, we examine the effect of horizontal mergers on … brewery access to the macrobrewer's distribution network, facilitating expansion into new markets and thereby increasing the …

This paper studies the 2008 MillerCoors joint venture in the U.S. beer industry through a vertically related market … studied. In a vertical relationship, the upstream shock does not fully pass through to the retail price because of post …-merger price adjustments. Downstream concentration determines retailer markups and affects the capability of upstream firms to …