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This article reviews the legal standards and the economics of indirect purchaser cases. Drawn from recent cases on behalf of consumers in the ADM price fixing case, it presents cost pass through models for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), one of the alleged price fixes in the wet corn milling...
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markets. We employ data for 51 local market areas from the Information Resources, Inc. "Supermarket Review" data base for 1988 …
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In early 2002, the Royal Ahold subsidiary, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, offered to purchase the Big V supermarket chain … Wakefern and remains in the Shop Rite supermarket cooperative system. …
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This study was provided to the staff at the Federal Trade Commission in October, 1999. It expands the analysis of divestitures that was presented in an April 1999 report to the FTC (An Antitrust Economic Analysis of the Proposed Acquisition of Supermarkets General Holdings Corporation by Ahold...
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This paper develops an analysis of markets for differentiated products. It relies on the concept of latent separability for consumer preferences. As proposed by Blundell and Robin, latent separability assumes that purchased products are allocated in the production of latent intermediate...
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In early 2002, the Royal Ahold subsidiary, Stop & Shop Supermarkets, offered to purchase the Big V supermarket chain … Wakefern and remains in the Shop Rite supermarket cooperative system. …
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This paper reviews the basic antitrust standards for the supermarket industry including definition of product and … the New Empirical Industrial Organization literature to highlight alternative tests for supermarket power. The focus is a … supermarket chains ability to exercise buyer as well as seller power. Recent research on vertical pricing topics including …
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This report analyzes the economic impact of price fixing in the wet corn milling industry on consumers in the State of Michigan. Two of the companies who produce citric acid have pleaded guilty to fixing its price. In this report we assume that price fixing also occurred among HFCS producers....
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