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Local Buyer Market Power and Horizontally Differentiated Manufacturers

Wang, Shinn-Shyr; Rojas, Christian; Lavoie, Nathalie - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

In this paper we study a farmer-processor relationship, where market power is bidirectional: processors have buyer as well as seller market power. Farmers supply a homogeneous raw input to the processors, which, in turn, process it into a horizontally differentiated product. The analysis shows...

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Returns, Lags, and Complementarities in Brand and Generic Advertising: The Demand for Peanut Butter

Kaneko, Naoya; Fletcher, Stanley M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of generic and brand advertising on the demand for peanut butter in the U.S. An error correction model is estimated with quarterly data from 1985 to 2004 to study both the short- and long-run adjustments. The results indicate that brand advertising has a...

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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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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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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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MARKET POWER IN DIRECT MARKETING OF FRESH PRODUCE: COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE FARMS

Lass, Daniel A.; Lavoie, Nathalie; Fetter, T. Robert - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

CSA farms establish a loyal customer base and, potentially, market power. Two new empirical industrial organization (NEIO) approaches and survey data from Northeast CSA farms are used to determine the presence and extent of market power. Results suggest CSA farms exert only about 3.5 percent of...

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EXPLAINING PRICE TRANSMISSION ASYMMETRY IN THE US PEANUT MARKETING CHAIN

Revoredo-Giha, Cesar; Nadolnyak, Denis A.; Fletcher, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

n the paper, we study price transmission from wholesale peanut prices to retail peanut butter prices. Using monthly data since 1984, we show that, while an increase in peanut prices is almost immediately transferred to peanut butter prices, it takes several months for a price decrease to be...

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