Proliferation of Brewers’ Brands and Price Uniformity in Canadian Beer Markets

摘要: In this paper, we study retail pricing in Canadian beer markets, where access to the liquor distribution system and price list is restricted by government ownership control of system. We consider alternative explanations for uniformity differentiated products market. While an analysis data from six provinces a 10-year period shows that no single explanation strongly dominates others, some results are consistent with menu cost demand uncertainty theories uniformity.