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What Happens When Food Marketers Require Restrictive Farming Practices?

Saitone, Tina L.; Sexton, Richard J.; Sumner, Daniel A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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ACTUAL PURCHASE VS. INTENDED PURCHASE: DO CONSUMERS BUY WHAT THEY SAY?

Rimal, Arbindra; Fletcher, Stanley M.; McWatters, Kay H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

A bivariate probit model was used to examine the relationship between actual and intended purchase of irradiated beef. The likelihood ratio test rejected the equality of parameters affecting actual and intended purchase decisions. Actual purchases were affected by package labels and appearance,...

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DOES BRANDED FOOD PRODUCT ADVERTISING HELP OR HURT FARMERS?

Zhang, Mingxia; Sexton, Richard J.; Alston, Julian M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

A two-stage model is developed to study food processing firms' brand advertising and its welfare effects on farmers in a duopsony/duoploy setting. In stage 1 firms compete to differentiate their products through brand advertising, and in stage 2 firms engage in quality competition. Farmers may...

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Contract Marketing after the 2002 Farm Act: The Case of Peanuts

Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Nadolnyak, Denis A.; Fletcher, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

The elimination of the marketing quota system that regulated the peanut market since the 1930s has been accompanied by … the emergence of marketing contracts between farmers and peanut buyers (mainly peanut shellers). Two types of contracts … the main role of the contracts is to replace the marketing structure existing prior the 2002 Farm Act, where peanut …

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The Effect of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Grocery Prices in New England

Volpe III, Richard J.; Lavoie, Nathalie - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

This study analyzes the effect of the presence of Wal-Mart Supercenters on the prices at conventional supermarkets in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Using price indexes constructed from primary price data on a basket of 54 goods and holding several demographics and market...

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A New Framework for Evaluating Commodity Promotion Programs: What Can We Learn from Disaggregate Data?

Carman, Hoy F.; Li, Lan; Sexton, Richard J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006

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FOB OR UNIFORM DELIVERED PRICING: STRATEGIC CHOICE AND WELFARE EFFECTS

Zhang, Mingxia; Sexton, Richard J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

In most spatial markets, firms use either FOB or uniform delivered pricing, so the competitive factors motivating this choice and its welfare implications are important research questions. Prior work on duopoly using inelastic demands leads to biased results and our model on duopsony with...

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OPTIMAL COMMODITY PROMOTION IN IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE MARKETS

Zhang, Mingxia; Sexton, Richard J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000

general, hold when marketing is imperfectly competitive. Simulation analyses show that imperfect competition always reduces … farmers' optimal advertising expenditure and that an imperfectly competitive marketing sector may capture half or more of the …

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HORIZONTAL DIFFERENTIATION WITH DIFFERENTIAL INPUT COSTS: RETAIL PRICES FOR MILK BY FAT CONTENT

Sexton, Richard J.; Xia, Tian; Carman, Hoy F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

Markets for horizontally differentiated products with differential costs are important and have unique features. This paper studies sellers' pricing strategy and market equilibrium in these markets under various competition scenarios in the context of retail milk markets. An empirical study is...

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FINDINGS OF PRICING-TO-MARKET: MARKET SEGMENTATION OR PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION?

Lavoie, Nathalie; Liu, Qihong - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

Pricing to market (PTM) has been examined extensively in the recent trade literature using Knetter's (1989) model. The technique is typically applied using export unit values that aggregate differentiated products. We examine the potential bias in PTM results when using export unit values using...

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