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processed food products. This paper relies primarily on firm-level interview data to assess competition and bottlenecks in …
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Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
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This paper highlights the key strategies, both regional and domestic, that have led to the current structure of the poultry value chain in Southern Africa. While large firm strategies in poultry have been found to be regional in nature, and important regional developments in soybean production,...
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This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competitiveness. The study identifies 'lead products'...
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developing country is the creation of competition ­ or, alternatively, avoiding the creation or preservation of monopoly power …. In seaports a crucial distinction is often that between intraport and interport competition; in freight railways, between … competition among train operating companies over a monopoly track and competition among vertically integrated railways. In both …
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faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto … presence of competition the profit-maximizingand socially optimal decision would be to cluster the two stations. Bycontrast, in … the absence of competition both a profit-maximizing firm and a socialplanner would locate the two stations on opposite …
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