Blood Alcohol Regulation and EU Beer Exports
| Title: | Blood Alcohol Regulation and EU Beer Exports |
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| Format: | Chapter |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Published In: | Geography of Beer: Policies, Perceptions, and Place |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Description: | We examine how blood alcohol content (BAC) regulations have affected EU beer exports over the 1995– 2019 period. We use BAC levels to group destination markets into five groups and examine how beer exports vary across BAC stringency. We distinguish between changes in the breadth of countries serviced (the extensive margin) and the trade deepening (the intensive margin). We find BAC rules affect the two margins differently. The breadth of EU exports is lower for destination markets with the least stringent BAC rules than markets with more stringent rules (i.e., lower BAC cutoff). By contrast, we find that the depth of EU exports increases as the BAC rules become less stringent. We offer possible explanations for the divergent effects of BAC rules on trade patterns but the results highlight the need for ongoing research on the topic. |
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| External Contributors: | Thomas J. Prusa |
| Citation: | Besedes, Tibor and Prusa, Thomas J. “Blood Alcohol Regulation and EU Beer Exports,” in Geography of Beer: Policies, Perceptions, and Place, Mark W. Patterson and Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, eds, Springer, 2023, pp. 59-71 |
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