method to study merger effects on firm entry and product variety in the retail craft beer market in California. We simulate … an acquisition of multiple craft breweries by a large brewery and find that the acquisition would induce firm entry and …

accident mortality rates of youths ages 15 through 17, 18 through 20, and 21 through 24 are negatively related to the real beer … purchase of beer. Simulations suggest that the lives of 1,022 youths between the ages of 18 and 20 would have been saved in a … typical year during the sample period if the Federal excise tax rate on beer, which has been fixed in nominal terms since 1951 …

This paper investigates changes in cultural consumption patterns for a low concentration industry: wine and beer. Using … data on 38 countries from 1963-2000, there is clear convergence in the consumption of wine relative to beer between 1963 …

We conduct an empirical case study of the U.S. beer industry to analyze the disruptive effects of locally … generation of adult Millennial consumers. We document a generational share gap: Millennials buy more craft beer than earlier … Baby Boomers, with the remainder explained by intrinsic generational differences in preferences. We predict the beer market …

data on exports of U.S. linerboard and German beer to a variety of destination markets. The destination-specific panel data …