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This paper is concerned with the impact of food scares, principally the BSE crisis, in the UK and focuses on price adjustment at different stages in a vertically-related market. Our interest is motivated primarily by the presence of market power that is alleged to occur in UK food retailing....
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This paper focuses on price transmission in a vertically-related set-up where the retail stage may exercise oligopoly and/or oligopsony power, an issue addressed by the UK anti-trust authority investigation of the food retailing sector. From a theoretical perspective, we set out simple tests...
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This paper is concerned with the impact of food scares, principally the BSE crisis, in the UK and focuses on price adjustment at different stages in a vertically-related market. From a theoretical perspective we show that if market power has an effect on the margin between retail and farm prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868813