Lee, Hyejin; Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Van Cayseele, Patrick - 2021
Agricultural cooperatives have often been promoted as a way to increase their market power and to obtain stability of … market power of cooperatives in the Italian fruits and vegetable sector and the dairy sector. We use the firm-level data of … Italian firms for the period 2007-2014. We find that, overall, there is a tradeoff in cooperatives' role between obtaining …