The Supreme Court and Beer Mergers: From Pabst/Blatz to the DOJ–FTC Merger Guidelines

Kenneth Elzinga and Anthony Swisher

Review of Industrial Organization, 2005, vol. 26, issue 3, 245-267

Abstract: The beer industry in the U.S. has undergone significant structural change in the post-WWII period. The industry also was the object of prominent antitrust challenges to horizontal mergers proposed during this time frame. This paper documents the trend of increasing seller concentration in the brewing industry and assesses the role that mergers played in this structural transformation. We also analyze the change in merger policy that has taken place since the Supreme Court originally addressed mergers in the beer industry as compared to current antitrust enforcement under the DOJ–FTC Merger Guidelines and recent judicial decisions. Copyright Springer 2005

Keywords: Antitrust; beer; mergers; Supreme Court (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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