The purpose of my talk today is to review several aspects of the market structure, strategic rivalry, and economic performance of the ready-to-eat cereals industry. To do so, I will at times take a long historical view of the breakfast cereals industry because many of the behaviors we observe...

[eng] The globalization of corporate crime: food and agricultural cartels of the 1990s - This paper presents and analyses juridical and economic data relative to all known international cartels which have been efficient during the 1990s on food and agricultural markets. 29 cartels have been...

This article surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of advertising during the last decade The survey notes several promising advances in theoretical modeling of the role of advertising in consumer choice and social welfare Numerous empirical investigations of food and...

This paper examines the relationship of 1987 retail grocery prices to supermarket sales concentration across 95 U.S. metropolitan areas. The regression model incorporates a large number of population, retail-cost, and retail competition factors and separate prices by type of grocery item. We...

This paper surveys hundreds of published social-science studies of private, hard-core cartels that contain 699 observations of long-run overcharges. The primary finding is that the median cartel overcharge for all types of cartels over all time periods is 25%: 19% for domestic cartels, 32% for...

This paper surveys developments in analytical models and empirical findings concerning the strategic use of manufacturers' coupons for U.S. grocery products. Traditional theories examine the horizontal effects of coupons as a strategy to charge various classes of consumers different prices....