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Competition Effects of Supermarket Services

Bonanno, Alessandro; Lopez, Rigoberto - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2007

This article investigates the competition effects of supermarket food and non-food services using fluid milk as a case study. A simultaneous equation model for services and price competition is estimated with scanner data from 16 supermarket chains operating in six U.S. cities. Empirical results...

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On the Competitive Interaction Between Private Label and Branded Grocery Products

Cotterill, Ronald W.; Dhar, Ravi; Putsis Jr., William P. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 1996

Recent research in marketing has focused on cross-category variation in the market share of private label products … the factors influencing firm pricing behavior (supply) jointly determine observed market prices and market shares. More … the branded price is higher in markets dominated be national brands. Key Words: private labels, pricing, competitive …

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WIC Contract Spillover Effects

Huang, Rui; Perloff, Jeffrey M. - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2009

The three major infant formula manufacturers bid state by state to be the exclusive provider to poor families under the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and all three compete for non-WIC customers at grocery stores. Previous studies explained the low WIC prices and the higher retail...

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Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products: The Case of Beer in the U.S.

Rojas, Christian; Peterson, Everett - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2005

This paper employs a nation-wide sample of supermarket scanner data to estimate a large brandlevel demand system for beer in the U.S. Unlike previous studies, this work estimates the ownand cross-advertising elasticities in addition to price elasticities. The dimensionality problem is solved...

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Boosting water benefits in West Bengal

International Water Management Institute (IWMI); …

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Variety: Consumer Choice and Optimal Diversity

Horrace, William; Huang, Rui; Perloff, Jeffrey - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2009

Consumers choose from among the varieties of two brands and an outside good using order statistics. We analytically derive demand functions conditional on their valuations of the varieties being distributed independently uniform. Based on this theory, we estimate a threeparameter empirical...

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Market Power and Price Competition in U.S. Brewing

Rojas, Christian - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2005

observed pricing behavior of ?firms and the equilibrium prices predicted by various pricing models: Bertrand-Nash, leadership … Budweiser whereas collusion focuses on the three largest brewers. Results indicate that Bertrand-Nash predicts the pricing … behavior of fi?rms more closely than other models. Concerns about non-competitive pricing of the forms studied here should …

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AGRICULTURAL PRICE SPREADS AND MARKET PERFORMANCE

Azzam, Azzeddine M.; Pagoulatos, Emilio; Schroeter, John R. - Department of Resource Economics, University of … - 1988

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Estimating Brand Level Demand Elasticities and Measuring Market Power for Regular Carbonated Soft Drinks

Langan, Glenn E.; Cotterill, Ronald W. - Department of Resource Economics, University of … - 1994

market power that would arise from potential mergers or collusive pricing arrangements. …

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THE IMPACT OF PETROLEUM PRICES ON VEGETABLE OILS PRICES: EVIDENCE FROM COINTEGRATION TESTS

Awad Abdel Hameed, Amna; Mohamed Arshad, Fatimah - Agecon Search - 2008

This paper investigate the long-term relationship between the petroleum and vegetable oils prices represented by palm, soybean, sunflower and rapeseed oils prices. To that end, the bivariate cointegration approach using Engle-Granger two-stage estimation procedure is applied. The study utilises...

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