Much of the recent literature on price transmission focuses on whether price changesoccurring at one stage of the food sector are fully transmitted in changes to retail prices. Therole of market structure in determining the degree of price transmission is often emphasised,the presumption being...

This paper shows that although small or nancially constrained environmentalistgroups may be in a weak position, relative to polluting industries, in the directcompetition for political inuence, they can compete indirectly through changingpublic preferences over environmental quality. However, in...