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CEO Compensation in Cooperatives versus Publicly Listed Firms
Li, Feng; Hendrikse, George W.J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
cooperative dominates a publicly listed firm in terms of efficiency when either activities are sufficiently complementary, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880062
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Understanding Spatial Welfare Impacts of a Grain Ethanol Plant
Van Wart, Justin; Perrin, Richard K. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880096
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China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain
Waldron, Scott A.; Brown, Colin G.; Longworth, John W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880100
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Impacts of Retailers’ Pricing Strategies for Produce Commodities on Farmer Welfare
Li, Chenguang; Sexton, Richard J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The typical model of retail pricing for produce products assumes retailers set price equal to the farm price plus a certain markup. However, observations from scanner data indicate a large degree of price dispersion in the grocery retailing market. In addition to markup pricing behavior, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880146
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Survey of Empirical Studies of Market Power in Food Industries
Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; Glauben, Thomas; Teuber, Ramona; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
The objective of this study is, based on the existing literature, to provide a general systematic characteristic of market structure models. We distinguish cost, production, profit, revenue functions, as well as the general identification approach as most plausible methods to measure the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880267
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Implementation of a GAP Label in a Differentiated-Product Industry: A Welfare Evaluation with a Random Coefficients Model for Mar Del Plata, Argentina
Lacaze, Maria Victoria; Gonzalez, Julia - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
This paper evaluates the effect on market shares and consumer surplus of the introduction of a Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)-labeled product in the frozen fried potatoes (FFP) industry. We first estimate a model of household demand in Mar del Plata, Argentina, using scanner data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880321
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Multinationals versus cooperatives: The income and efficiency effects of supply chain governance in India
Vandeplas, Anneleen; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
per dairy animal than farmers supplying the cooperative and the multinational sector. Further, we find that farmers in the … multinational channel are more efficient than farmers in the cooperative channel, but equally profitable. Hence, we do not find that … supplying the cooperative channel is more beneficial for local dairy farmers than supplying the multinational channel. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880345
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Agricultural Clusters in China
Kiminami, Lily; Kiminami, Akira - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913357
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Antitrust Economic Analysis in Food Marketing Channels
Cotterill, Ronald W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913385
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Quality Provision and Farmer Inclusion of Agricultural Cooperatives
Yu, Jianyu - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The paper aims to analyze the quality provision and inclusion of farmers by a farmer-owned cooperative (co-op) when it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913427