(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 …

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 …

We study the pass-through of indirect taxes on beer prices in the European Union (EU). Exploiting the variation of … value added tax rates, beer excise tax rates, and beer prices in a panel of monthly data from 1996 to 2016 of all current 28 … EU member states, we estimate the tax pass-through of specific beer excise taxes and ad valorem value added taxes (VAT …