Beer snobs do exist: Estimation of beer demand by type

Although mass-produced beers still represent the vast majority of U.S. beer sales, there has been a significant growth trend in the craft beer segment. This study analyzes the demand for beer as a differentiated product and estimates own-price, cross-price, and income elasticities for beer by type:...

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Fecha de publicación:
2014
Institución:
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Repositorio:
Repositorio Institucional UTB
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.utb.edu.co:20.500.12585/9057
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12585/9057
Palabra clave:
Craft beer
Demand analysis
Differentiated products
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restrictedAccess
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:Although mass-produced beers still represent the vast majority of U.S. beer sales, there has been a significant growth trend in the craft beer segment. This study analyzes the demand for beer as a differentiated product and estimates own-price, cross-price, and income elasticities for beer by type: craft beer, mass-produced beer, and imported beer. We verify that beer is a normal good with a considerably inelastic demand and also find that the cross-price elasticity across types of beer is close to zero. The results suggest that there are effectively separate markets for beer by type. Copyright 2014 Western Agricultural Economics Association.