Global Alcohol Markets: Evolving Consumption Patterns, Regulations, and Industrial Organizations

Kym Anderson, Giulia Meloni and Johan Swinnen

Chapter 26 in The International Economics of Wine, 2019, pp 671-712 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: For millennia, alcoholic drinks have played an important role in food security and health (both positive and negative), but consumption patterns of beer, wine, and spirits have altered substantially over the past two centuries. So too have their production technologies and industrial organization. Globalization and economic growth have contributed to considerable convergence in national alcohol consumption patterns. The industrial revolution contributed to excess consumption by stimulating demand and lowering the cost of alcohol. It also led to concentration in some alcohol industries, especially brewing. In recent years, the emergence of craft producers has countered firm concentration and the homogenization of alcoholic beverages. Meanwhile, governments have intervened extensively in alcohol markets to reduce excessive consumption, raise taxes, protect domestic industries, and/or ensure competition. These regulations have contributed to, and been affected by, the evolving patterns of consumption and changing structures of alcohol industries.

Keywords: Wine Globalization; Australia's Wine Internationalization; Wine Markets in Asia; Wine Price Distortions; Modelling Global Wine Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L66 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Journal Article: Global Alcohol Markets: Evolving Consumption Patterns, Regulations, and Industrial Organizations (2018)
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Working Paper: Global Alcohol Markets: Evolving Consumption Patterns, Regulations and Industrial Organizations (2018)
Working Paper: Global alcohol markets: evolving consumption patterns, regulations and industrial organizations (2018)
Working Paper: Global alcohol markets: evolving consumption patterns, regulations and industrial organizations (2018)
Working Paper: Global Alcohol Markets: Evolving Consumption Patterns, Regulations and Industrial Organizations (2018)
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