evidence on competitive strategies in the skim/low fat milk, whole milk, cottage cheese, butter, margarine, and ice cream …

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

This article investigates the competition effects of supermarket food and non-food services using fluid milk as a case …, greater supermarket chain-level demand but lower price elasticity, and enhanced market power, all leading to higher milk … prices and quantity of milk sold. However, unlike previous research, we conclude that increases in cost rather than market …

. The model is estimated for the fluid milk market of the Northeast U.S., that of the metropolitan area of New York City as … levels of retail concentration to be estimated. Results suggest that intermediaries transmit variations in milk farm price in …

This paper assesses the impacts of the Northeast Dairy Compact (NEDC) and retail oligopoly power on fluid milk prices … nearly seven times. In fact, markups are estimated at approximately 25% of the retail milk price, translating into … approximately a little less than $0.75/gallon. We also estimated that only around two-thirds of the raw milk price changes were …