This special issue follows our conference, which was held in October 2021 and attended by beer historians and … sociologists from the U.S., Europe and Australia. By taking beer as a lens to approach questions of knowledge transfer and … circulation, we seek to refine our historical understanding of the global entanglements of the beer industry. This is all the more …

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 …