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 …

significant barriers to entry. Using new firm-level data on the Indian diamond industry, the empirical analysis documents the …

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 …

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 …