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When Helping the Small Hurts the Middle: Beer Excise Duties and Market Concentration

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  • Loretz, Simon

    (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria)

  • Oberhofer, Harald

    (University of Salzburg)

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The beer market has undergone a dramatic change over the last decades and there are growing concerns of too much market concentration. Among other reasons we identify the role of beer excise taxes in the determination of the market structure. In particular the introduction of a minimum excise tax for beer in the European Union with the provision for a asymmetric reduction for small breweries can create incentives for small breweries. While we find evidence that high beer excise taxes increase the likelihood to be target of an international takeover, the overall role of beer taxes on the market structure is ambiguous. While the reduced beer excise for small breweries fosters new entries, they potentially squeeze out mid-sized breweries resulting in an even more concentration market.

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  • Loretz, Simon & Oberhofer, Harald, 2014. "When Helping the Small Hurts the Middle: Beer Excise Duties and Market Concentration," Working Papers in Economics 2014-5, University of Salzburg.
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    Keywords

    Market concentration; Beer excise duties; beer market; mergers and acquisitions;
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    JEL classification:

    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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