Tapioca starch and palm oil industries are considered as ones of the fast-growing agro-industries in Thailand. Both industries release a significant amount of wastewater with high organic content as a result of their production processes. Traditionally, open pond systems have been used to treat...

The apparent increase in market concentration and vertical integration in the Indonesiancrude palm oil (CPO) industry has led to concerns about the presence of market power.For the Indonesian CPO industry, such concerns attract more attention because of theimportance of this sector to the...

Cooking oil is known as an essential commodity in Indonesia. Having such an important role, the Indonesian government often interfered the cooking oil market to assure its price remain low. To do so, the government uses a subsidy policy as one of its instruments. A dynamic duopoly model is...

A plethora of approaches to modeling market power has been reported in the literature. These can be broadly divided into one-side and two-side behavioral models. This paper uses versions of these models to develop a theoretical framework to test market power in the output and input markets in...