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Spatial Competition of Milk Processing Cooperatives in Northern Germany
Huck, Petra; Salhofer, Klaus; Tribl, Christoph - 2006
In this paper we develop a theoretical model of competition among marketing cooperatives (co-ops) in a spatial market setting assuming uniform delivered pricing and Löschian conduct. The model is an extension to Alvarez et al.’s (2000) spatial competition model for investorowned firms (IOF)....
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TRADE POLICY AND TIME CONSISTENCY IN AN OLIGOPSONISTIC WORLD MARKET
Gervais, Jean-Philippe; Lapan, Harvey E. - 1998
This paper investigates the strategic behavior between countries that have purchasing power on the world market for a certain good. Tariffs and quotas are not equivalent protection instruments in this oligopsonistic market. Policy active importers would be better off by colluding and setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443115
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MODELING PRICE IMPACTS OF BACKWARD VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN THE US PORK INDUSTRY
Pritchett, James G.; Liu, Donald J. - 1999
The U.S. pork sector is evolving from an industry of small, independent firms vertically linked by spot markets to one of substantially larger firms vertically connected through contractual agreements and integration. Potential benefits to this tighter vertical arrangement include lower consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443452
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Location and Spatial Pricing in Agricultural Markets
Graubner, Marten; Balmann, Alfons; Sexton, Richard J. - 2010
Agricultural markets often feature significant transport costs and spatially distributed production and processing which causes spatial imperfect competition. Spatial economics considers the firms’ decisions regarding location and spatial price strategy separately, usually on the demand side,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446103
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Imperfect Competition in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Industry
Requillart, Vincent; Simioni, Michel; Varela Irimia, … - 2009
equations and pricing equations which include terms that capturethe oligopoly and oligopsony power of the retail sector and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446308
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Minimum wage increases can lead to wage reductions by imperfectly competitive firms
Clark, Ken; Kaas, Leo; Madden, Paul - 2006
In a model with imperfect competition and multiple equilibria we show how an increase in the minimum wage can lead firms to reduce wages (and employment). We find some empirical support for this in the Card–Krueger minimum wage data.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471631
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Antidumping Effects in the Presence of Collusion in an Upstream Market: the case of U.S. frozen shrimp imports from Thailand
Suchato, Ravissa - 2009
Many studies have shown a relationship between antidumping duty and collusion. These studies, however, only focus on collusion in output (downstream) market, i.e. collusion between import competing firms and exporters, or among import competing firms. This dissertation explores how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450801
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The Factors Affecting the Long Run Supply of Rubber from Sarawak, East Malaysia, 1900-1990: An Historical and Econometric Analysis
Purcell, Timothy - 1993
The factors affecting the supply of rubber from Sarawak, East Malaysia, were identified and reviewed in an historical … practical application of the methodology to the supply of rubber from Sarawak was carried out. An econometric analysis of the … long run factors affecting the production of rubber was carried out. (1) Two log-differenced autoregressive models of the …
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Sustainable Development on the Mekong Region
Picon Garrote, Pablo - 2011
the problem, I have chosen to investigate rubber plantations, one type of private investment project that is very popular … consequences of rubber plantations more deeply, as well as the legal and economic factors around them. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475412
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Differentiated customers and firms
Brenner, Steffen - 2002
Zusammenfassung Die Dissertation behandelt die Thematik der Unternehmensheterogenität. Die Arbeit besteht aus einem theoretischen und einem empirischen Teil. Im theoretischen Teil wird untersucht, wie sich Asymmetrien auf der Ebene der Konsumenten auf das Unternehmensverhalten auswirken. Im...
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