Merger efficiencies provide the primary justification for why mergers of competitors may benefit consumers …

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 …

generation of adult Millennial consumers. We document a generational share gap: Millennials buy more craft beer than earlier …We conduct an empirical case study of the U.S. beer industry to analyze the disruptive effects of locally … 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 …

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 …

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 …

are restricted to lie in narrow ranges. We calibrate our model using data from the beer industry, and we show that our …