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 … and consumption patterns -- although the relative consumption of wine can be explained well in 1963 by grape production …

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 … past experiences, or, consumption capital. Our test exploits a novel database tracking the geographic differences in the …

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

consumption results from an increase in spirits taxes, followed by beer taxes and then wine taxes. This suggests that the existing … a unit of alcohol in beer, in wine and in spirits. This paper provides some new empirical evidence of what effect … alcohol tax differentials have on total alcohol consumption. The data indicate that the greatest decrease in alcohol …

method to study merger effects on firm entry and product variety in the retail craft beer market in California. We simulate …

data on business decisions and performance of beer sellers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, we study the … importance of traditional religious beliefs for economic behavior and outcomes. Beer sellers perceive the risk of theft in their …

Standard consumption models assume a notional consumption flow that does not distinguish between nondurable and durable … consumption. Such notional-consumption models generate notional marginal propensities to consume (MPC). By contrast, empirical … durable stock. We compare the notional-consumption model to an isomorphic model with a durable stock, and map notional MPCs …