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Merger efficiencies provide the primary justification for why mergers of competitors may benefit consumers. Surprisingly, there is little evidence that efficiencies can offset incentives to raise prices following mergers. We estimate the effects of increased concentration and efficiencies on...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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data on exports of U.S. linerboard and German beer to a variety of destination markets. The destination-specific panel data …
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a unit of alcohol in beer, in wine and in spirits. This paper provides some new empirical evidence of what effect … consumption results from an increase in spirits taxes, followed by beer taxes and then wine taxes. This suggests that the existing … generally accepted taxation policy of placing the highest tax on spirits, a lower tax on beer, and the lowest tax on wine …
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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 …
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are restricted to lie in narrow ranges. We calibrate our model using data from the beer industry, and we show that our …
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While inferring markups from demand data is common practice, estimation relies on difficult-to-test assumptions, including a specific model of how firms compete. Alternatively, markups can be inferred from production data, again relying on a set of difficult-to-test assumptions, but a wholly...
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