- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Units of Measurement
- 1 A Brief Economic History of Beer
- 2 Beer Production, Profits, and Public Authorities in the Renaissance
- 3 Standards and International Trade Integration: A Historical Review of the German ‘Reinheitsgebot’
- 4 Brewing Nation: War, Taxes, and the Growth of the British Beer Industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 5 Belgian Beers: Where History Meets Globalization
- 6 Cold Comfort in Hard Times: Do People Drink More Beer during Recessions?
- 7 Beer‐Drinking Nations: The Determinants of Global Beer Consumption
- 8 Recent Economic Developments in the Import and Craft Segments of the US Brewing Industry
- 9 Culture and Beer Preferences
- 10 Competition Policy towards Brewing: Rational Response to Market Power or Unwarranted Interference in Efficient Markets?<sup>1</sup>
- 11 Developments in US Merger Policy: The Beer Industry as Lens<sup>1</sup>
- 12 The Growth of Television and the Decline of Local Beer
- 13 Determinants of the Concentration in Beer Markets in Germany and the United States: 1950–2005
- 14 How the East was Won: The Foreign Takeover of the Eastern European Brewing Industry
- 15 Beer Battles in China: The Struggle over the World's Largest Beer Market
- 16 From Vodka to Baltika: A Perfect Storm in the Russian Beer Market
- 17 Opening the Beer Gates: How Liberalization Caused Growth in India's Beer Market
- 18 Beeronomics: The Economics of Beer and Brewing
- Index
Beeronomics: The Economics of Beer and Brewing
Beeronomics: The Economics of Beer and Brewing
- Chapter:
- (p.335) 18 Beeronomics: The Economics of Beer and Brewing
- Source:
- The Economics of Beer
- Author(s):
Johan F. M. Swinnen
Thijs Vandemoortele
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The chapters in this book demonstrate that ‘beeronomics’ covers a vast set of economic issues: economic history, development, demand and supply, geography, trade, investment, technology, health and nutrition, quantity and quality, industrial organization, competition, science and innovation, taxation, regulation, political economy, etc. This concluding chapter summarizes some of the key insights of this book, organized in five sections: a historical perspective on the product ‘beer’, consumption, industrial organization, trade and international expansion, and government regulation. The final section discusses a set of unresolved issues and a future research agenda in the field of beeronomics.
Keywords: beer, history, consumption, industrial organization, trade, international expansion, regulation
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Units of Measurement
- 1 A Brief Economic History of Beer
- 2 Beer Production, Profits, and Public Authorities in the Renaissance
- 3 Standards and International Trade Integration: A Historical Review of the German ‘Reinheitsgebot’
- 4 Brewing Nation: War, Taxes, and the Growth of the British Beer Industry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 5 Belgian Beers: Where History Meets Globalization
- 6 Cold Comfort in Hard Times: Do People Drink More Beer during Recessions?
- 7 Beer‐Drinking Nations: The Determinants of Global Beer Consumption
- 8 Recent Economic Developments in the Import and Craft Segments of the US Brewing Industry
- 9 Culture and Beer Preferences
- 10 Competition Policy towards Brewing: Rational Response to Market Power or Unwarranted Interference in Efficient Markets?<sup>1</sup>
- 11 Developments in US Merger Policy: The Beer Industry as Lens<sup>1</sup>
- 12 The Growth of Television and the Decline of Local Beer
- 13 Determinants of the Concentration in Beer Markets in Germany and the United States: 1950–2005
- 14 How the East was Won: The Foreign Takeover of the Eastern European Brewing Industry
- 15 Beer Battles in China: The Struggle over the World's Largest Beer Market
- 16 From Vodka to Baltika: A Perfect Storm in the Russian Beer Market
- 17 Opening the Beer Gates: How Liberalization Caused Growth in India's Beer Market
- 18 Beeronomics: The Economics of Beer and Brewing
- Index
