Are multinationals exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for imports of coffee beans? The purpose of this study is to address this issue by testing if there is market power on the Swedish market for roasted...

In this paper we study a combination of four quality ratings as dependent variables, regressing them on a large number of explanatory variables. In particular, we focus on Piedmont which is the largest and most important Italian wine region; it produces prestigious wines such as great Barolo and...

Frontier cost and production functions are used to examine the effects of ownership on intrafirm differences in technical, cost, and allocative efficiency in the Indian sugar processing industry. Cooperatives are found to be as or more efficient than their counterparts. The results suggest that...

In recent years, a lot of research has been carried out with the aim of expanding our knowledge about family businesses (FBs). The research published to date seems to approach the subject from three angles: investigating the role of FBs in the economy, identifying differences between FBs and...

This paper hypothesizes that Asian crisis has severely affected the financial dimensions of the Turkish industries. The analysis of the financial data for 70 companies from textile, food and cement industries provides evidence to partially support this hypothesis. By principal components...

SUBJECT AREAS: International finance, subsidiary financing, ADRs, Mexican peso. CASE SETTING: Mexico, 1996.Synopsis: This case describes the complexity of PepsiCo's competitive position in the Mexican softdrink market in late 1996. Following PepsiCo's anchor bottler in Mexico, Gemex, the case...

SUBJECT AREAS: Option strategies, risk arbitrage, tender offers.CASE SETTING: 1989, options markets, takeover contest. In 1989 Kohlberg, Kravis, and Roberts acquired RJR Nabisco in exchange for a combination of cash and securities. Over the weeks while RJR was a target, prior to the successful...

In corporate restructuring under Chapter 11, an asset valuation is a central task for both legal and financial reasons. In the area of intangible assets, however, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not reflect internally-generated assets such as brands, trademarks, and other...

In this paper, we offer a hybrid approach to merger simulation in which we allow rather extensive pre-testing to suggest the quot;correctquot;, or most desirable, form for the underlying demand curves. Our application is the merger between the large mobile telephone companies Cingular and...

Cross-border acquisitions constitute the main form of foreign direct investment in the world economy, the focus of this paper being to consider the determinants of the location and growth of cross-border acquisitions in the global food sector. The data relates to over 2,000 international...