The Dynamics of Industry Concentration for U.S. Micro and Macro Brewers

Tremblay, Victor J.; Iwasaki, Natsuko

doi:10.1007/s11151-004-8114-9

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“…The macro‐brewing sector of the United States beer industry emerged into an oligopolistic structure by 1970. Although the concentration ratio is not the sole determinant of a specific market structure, the four‐firm concentration ratio (CR 4 ) increased from about 44% in 1970 to 92.8% in 2003 (Tremblay et al ; Gokhale and Tremblay ). As reported by Tremblay et al (), CR 4 surpassed 40% in 1968, which is the cut‐off established by Scherer and Ross () and Shepherd () to distinguish a competitive market from an imperfectly competitive one.…”

Section: The Us Beer Industry and Tax Pass‐throughmentioning

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The Pass‐through of Beer Taxes to Prices: Evidence From State and Federal Tax Changes

Shrestha

Markowitz

2016

Economic Inquiry

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From a policy perspective, it is crucial to understand how changes in beer taxes affect retail beer prices. This study provides new evidence of the pass‐through rate of state beer taxes to prices in a post‐merger era. Our estimates that use state‐level beer tax changes suggest that a 10‐cent increase in beer taxes raises retail prices by about 17 cents. Comparable findings from the 1991 federal beer tax increase show a rise in retail beer prices of 19–22 cents. Our findings suggest that consumers fully bear the burden of increased beer taxes. (JEL H2, I0, D4)

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Section: The Us Beer Industry and Tax Pass‐throughmentioning

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The Pass‐through of Beer Taxes to Prices: Evidence From State and Federal Tax Changes

Shrestha

Markowitz

2016

Economic Inquiry

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“…Beer has been around for so long that is difficult to be precise regarding when its consumption/production began (Horsey 2003;Tremblay et al 2005). Beer consumption dates to the Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and it is related to the cereals production growth.…”

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“…Beer consumption dates to the Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and it is related to the cereals production growth. Numerous brewing techniques were developed throughout the centuries (Tremblay et al 2005). It is acceptable to say, therefore, that beer is a day-by-day beverage from the way back in time, and barley malt beer is the world's most consumed alcoholic drink at present (Horsey 2003;Tremblay et al 2005).…”

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“…Tremblay and Tremblay (2005, p. 9) remind that the USA have a "major beer drinking" profile, along Ireland and the Czech Republic. The per capita beer consumption in the USA was about 22.0 gallons in 2001 (Tremblay et al 2005). It is the homeland for the brewing company Anheuser-Busch that along with the InBev forms the world's current largest brewing company.…”

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International market structure and competitiveness at the malted beer: from 2003 to 2012

Thomé

Soares

2015

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Barley malt beer is the world's most consumed alcoholic drink and its industry represents a multibillion dollar international trade. Th e paper's main goal is to contribute with the analysis of this industry in terms of its international competitiveness and market structure. It utilizes the data regarding exports and imports for malted beer available in the International Trade Centre's Trade Map database and it refers to the period of ten years (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012). Th e method used to expose the industry's competitiveness and market structure consisted in the calculation of (i) Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA); (ii) Relative Position of Market (RPM); (iii) Hirschman-Herfi ndahl index (HHI) and (iv) Net Export Index (NEI). Th e fi ndings show a high concentration for both the import and export markets and the detainers of the largest shares are: (1) the United States of America for imports and (2) Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany for exports. It was possible to identify the players in the market structure based on exporters, importers and both importers and exporters, stressing their position in the market.Key words: international market structure, international competitiveness, malted beer 167Agric. Econ.-Czech, 61, 2015 (4): 166-178 Original Paper doi: 10.17221/189/2014-AGRICECON and (iii) macroeconomic (nation). With that in mind, the discussion will be undertaken on the mesoanalytic level, involving the barley malt beer. There are different indicators for a mesoanalytic view, according to Horn (1985). The trade theory says that a nation's competitive edge on specific sectors should be guided by the comparative advantage, according Ricardo and Heckscher-Ohlin. The comparative advantage says that the trade flows are the result of the efficiency differences in resource allocation among other nations. It concludes that the nations should specialize their production sectors of specific products for which they would have a greater efficiency (Horn 1985;Bojnec and Fertö 2009).One of the most often used indicators of the competitive edge on the international basis is the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA). The RCA was initially created by Balassa (1965) and modified by Vollrath (1991) to avoid any doubled registers for the country pairs. It is sustained by exports. The index reveals the relation between the coefficients of participation of a nation's exported product i and its total flow of exports, and the coefficient of participation of the world's exported product i and the total flow of exports worldwide, in the same period. Mathematically:

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“…Recently, the traditional beverage beer has lost consumers to other innovative beverages. Brewers have tried to counteract this negative trend by expanding the hop varieties (De Keukeleire et al ., ), using special malts, going into craft brewing or creating new beer‐blended beverages (Tremblay et al ., ; Vanderhaegen et al ., ; Statistisches Bundesamt 26.03…”

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Screening for new brewing yeasts in the non‐Saccharomyces sector with Torulaspora delbrueckii as model

Michel

Kopecká

Meier-Dörnberg

et al. 2016

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This study describes a screening system for future brewing yeasts focusing on nonSaccharomyces yeasts. The aim was to find new yeast strains that can ferment beer wort into a respectable beer. Ten Torulaspora delbrueckii strains were put through the screening system, which included sugar utilization tests, hop resistance tests, ethanol resistance tests, polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting, propagation tests, amino acid catabolism and anabolism, phenolic off-flavour tests and trial fermentations. Trial fermentations were analysed for extract reduction, pH drop, yeast concentration in bulk fluid and fermentation by-products. All investigated strains were able to partly ferment wort sugars and showed high tolerance to hop compounds and ethanol. One of the investigated yeast strains fermented all the wort sugars and produced a respectable fruity flavour and a beer of average ethanol content with a high volatile flavour compound concentration. Two other strains could possibly be used for pre-fermentation as a bio-flavouring agent for beers that have been postfermented by Saccharomyces strains as a consequence of their low sugar utilization but good flavour-forming properties.

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The Dynamics of Industry Concentration for U.S. Micro and Macro Brewers

Cited by 69 publications

References 13 publications

The Pass‐through of Beer Taxes to Prices: Evidence From State and Federal Tax Changes

The Pass‐through of Beer Taxes to Prices: Evidence From State and Federal Tax Changes

International market structure and competitiveness at the malted beer: from 2003 to 2012

Screening for new brewing yeasts in the non‐Saccharomyces sector with Torulaspora delbrueckii as model

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