Das deutsche Brauereigewerbe ist zwar eine noch überwiegend mittelständisch geprägte Branche mit regionaler Vielfalt, aber in den letzten Jahren findet auch dort ein starker Konzentrationsprozess statt: Etwa 50 Großbrauereien mit über 500 000 Hektoliter Jahresproduktion halten inzwischen...

Nachdem für den Mai 2010 noch gemeldet wurde, dass der Bierabsatz in Deutschland auf den niedrigsten Maiwert seit 1993 gesunken sei, konnte das Brauereigewerbe in den Folgemonaten aufatmen. Die Begeisterung über die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft in Südafrika und der außergewöhnlich heiße...

Very little is known about the basic income and price responsiveness of New Zealand food markets. As far as we can determine, there has never been a complete disaggregated food demand model estimated for New Zealand. In a famous article, Court (1967) estimated a demand system for three red...

We propose a demand model where consumers simultaneously choose a few different goods from a large menu of available goods, and choose how much to consume of each good. The model nests multinomial discrete choice and continuous demand systems as special cases. Goods can be substitutes or...

The aim of this paper is to provide a reliable set of income, own-price, and cross-price elasticities of demand for the consumer goods, foods and alcohol beverages based on Almost Ideal Demand System model applied to the most relevant Czech data set of Household Budget Statistics. While we...

We determine a relationship between high quality wines and its drivers. We answer the questions: What variables explain high-quality wine prices? How do certain factors (highly, slightly or scarcely) under control of the suppliers, influence prices? To respond, we build a database with thirteen...

This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...

How malleable is alcohol consumption? Specifically, how much is alcohol consumption driven by the current environment versus individual characteristics? To answer this question, we analyze changes in alcohol purchases when consumers move from one state to another in the United States. Right...

The milk addiction paradox refers to an empirical finding in which commodities that are typically considered to be non addictive, such as milk, appear instead to be addictive. This result seems more likely when there is persistence in consumption and when using aggregate data, and it suggests...

The repeal of the Prohibition Act in 1933 introduced state-level regulations on the retail availability of alcoholic beverages. Recently there has been much debate among industry stakeholders on how changes to these laws will affect consumer choices. We develop an index to measure purchase...