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Ma, Meilin; Lusk, Jayson L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

consumers is a smaller number of processors. The concentrated nature of the meat processing sectors in the United States implies … concentrated meat processing sector would be less vulnerable to the risks of temporary plant shutdowns. We calibrate an economic … horizontal concentration of meat packing …

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Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing

Ramsey, A. Ford; Goodwin, Barry K.; Haley, Mildred A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing...

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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...

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