Beeronomics, the economics of beer and brewing

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Prof. Jo Swinnen

LICOS & KU Leuven (Chair)

Prof. Julian Alston

University of California at Davis

Prof. Kym Anderson

University of Adelaide

Prof. Xavier Gellynck Ghent University

Prof. Harry de Gorter

Cornell University

Prof. Hamish Gow

Michigan State University

Prof. David Harvey

University of Newcastle

Prof. Thomas Heckelei

University of Bonn

Dr. Jikun Huang

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof. Tim Josling

Stanford University

Prof. Karen Macours

Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Jill McCluskey

Washington State University

Dr. Bart Minten

International Food Policy Research Institute

Dr. Wolfgang Münch

European Commission

Prof. Alessandro Olper

University of Milano

Prof. Joost Pennings

University of Maastricht

Prof. Scott Rozelle

Stanford University

Prof. Alexander Sarris

FAO-United Nations and University of Athens

Prof. Piet Sercu

KU Leuven

Prof. Leo Sleuwaegen

KU Leuven

WELCOME TO BEERONOMICS!

The future of Beeronomics

Prof. Jo Swinnen

chairman of the Beeronomics scientific committee

The first Beeronomics conference in Leuven turned out to be a great success. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all keynote speakers, participants, the scientific committee members and the local organizing team for their contribution. Klaus Salhofer, Adriano Profeta and their colleagues are organizing the second Beeronomics conference in Munich in October 2011, but nothing is currently planned for 2010. I would like to draw your attention to an alternative opportunity for us to get together in 2010 – a de facto Beeronomics conference.

Specifically, in June 2010, the American Association of Wine Economists will be meeting in Davis California. You can find the call for contributed papers below. The AAWE conference program is relatively open, including papers related to food and other beverages, not just wine. If enough papers related to beeronomics are submitted and accepted, we could anticipate having sessions within the AAWE conference dedicated to Beeronomics.

Also, northern California has a number of interesting breweries and there is potential for beeronomics field work before or after the AAWE conference if enough interest is manifest – e.g., http://www.sierranevada.com/index2.html and http://www.sudwerk.com/

AAWE call for papers

The American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) will hold its 4th Annual Conference
from June 25-28, 2010, at UC Davis in California.

The conference will be hosted by UC Davis and the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.
All economics and statistics papers related to wine and food are welcome.

Submit a 1000-word abstract by February 28, 2010 to jwe@whitman.edu.

You can find the Call for Papers here. Details will be posted on the website www.wine-economics.org

The first Beeronomics conference in Leuven

LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance is organizing the first ever Beeronomics Conference from the 27th to 29th May 2009 in Leuven, Belgium.

The first Beeronomics Conference is meant to provide a forum to exchange ideas and high-quality economic research related to the economics of beer, brewing and related activities. It covers a wide array of topics, including, but not limited to: production, trade, industrial organization, economic history, law and economics, marketing, consumption, policy and regulation, macroeconomics, etc.

As the country of beers, we thought that Belgium would be the appropriate place for this conference, and as the city hosting the famous “Old Market” (well known among beer lovers), the headquarters of InBev (the world’s largest brewing holding), and a prestigious university (the Catholic University of Leuven), Leuven would be the perfect town.