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Imperfect Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth in U.S. Food Processing

Azzam, Azzeddine M.; Lopez, Elena; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2002

This article examines the role of imperfect competition in determining total factor productivity growth (TFPG) by … need to account for imperfect competition, returns to scale, and demand in analyses of this type. …

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Evaluating Health Care Externality Costs Generated by Risky Consuption Goods

Cohen, Michael; Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009

We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) macroeconomic model that applies a behavioral interpretation of preferences for goods that generate health risks. In this paper proneness to poor health is viewed as a cognitive miscalculation by economic agents between their expected health state over...

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Demand for Differentiated Milk Products: Implications for Price Competition

Lopez, Elena; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2008

competition in the Boston fluid milk market. The problems of product dimensionality and consumer heterogeneity implied by …

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Is Wal-Mart Good for Competition? Evidence from Milk Prices

Cleary, Rebecca L. O.; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2007

the notion that Wal-Mart is good for competition and consumers. …

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Empirical Analysis of Competitive Interaction in Food Product Categories

William P. Putsis Jr. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1998

This paper provides an overview of recent research on estimating competitive interaction in food product categories. In particular, the focus of this review is on research using scanner data conducted at the disaggregate (e.g., store, chain or local market) level, including empirical studies of...

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An Empirical Analysis of Equilibrium Pricing and Advertising in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Market

Cohen, Michael; Rabinowitz, Adam - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2012

We introduce a model of dynamic price and advertising competition and use the model to investigate a popular segment of … model. To explore the implications of this specification decision on the assessment of price and advertising competition we … competition for multi-product firms; and compute the distribution of equilibrium price and advertising strategies to assess the …

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Who Benefits from Deregulated Milk Prices: The Missing Link is the Marketing Channel

Cotterill, Ronald W. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2002

Thank you for inviting me to speak to your conference. Given that the standard definition of an expert is someone who is more than a hundred miles from home I qualify as an expert on the western Canadian dairy industry. The conference organizing committee gave me as a working title, “Who...

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Assessing the Competitive Interaction Between Private Labels and National Brands

Cotterill, Ronald W.; William P. Putsis Jr.; Dhar, Ravi - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1999

In contrast to single-equation cross-sectional studies of private label share, developing a complete understanding of the nature of the competitive interaction between national brands and private labels requires an understanding of the determinants of both demand and strategic pricing decisions...

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Market Share and Price Setting Behavior For Private Labels and National Brands

Cotterill, Ronald W.; William P. Putsis Jr.; Dhar, Ravi - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2000

In this paper, we develop a framework for estimating market share and price reaction equations in an attempt to understand the nature of competitive interaction in the market for private label and branded grocery products. Specifically, we employ a Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System...

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Share, Price and Category Expenditure-- Geographic Market Effects and Private Labels

William P. Putsis Jr.; Cotterill, Ronald W. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2000

Focusing on the interaction between national brands and private labels, this paper has two main empirical contributions: i) a simultaneous system of demand (share), price and expenditure equations is estimated, and ii) differences in the structure of the local geographic market are incorporated...

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