The market for organic products increases continuously over time. Because con- sumers are willing to pay a premium for organic goods, firms may have an interest in developing organic production strategies and entering a profitable market segment. The objective of this paper is to assess the...

The market for organic products increases continuously over time. Because consumers are willing to pay a premium for organic goods, firms may have an interest in developing organic production strategies and entering a profitable market segment. The objective of this paper is to assess the...

The EU dairy sector is facing a period of significant changes that are due to three major decisions : the EU enlargement, le Luxembourg reform and on-going WTO negotiations. To evaluate the impact of such changes we developed a model of the EU and world dairy industry. The model is composed of...

This paper analyzes the effects of policy instruments used in the dairy sector. The analysis considers the supply of milk, the processing step characterized by joint production and the final demand for processed goods. A short term partial equilibrium model is defined. We use it to determine the...

Alors que les principales Organisations communes de marché des produits agricoles dans l'Union européenne (UE) ont évolué au cours des dix dernières années, la politique laitière européenne est demeurée largement inchangée depuis la mise en place des quotas laitiers en 1984. Compte...

[eng] Vertically related markets and public intervention : an application to dairy products . This paper analyses the effect of policy instruments used in the dairy sector. The analysis considers the supply of milk, the processing step characterised by joint production and final demand for...

We analyse vertical contracts between manufacturers and a common retailer in a channel including the uptstream input market. The oligopsonistic behavior of manufacturers on the ustream market provides a new explanation for predatory accomodation. With two-parts tariff, we show that joint profit...

In a period of market liberalization and multilateral trade negotiations, price discrimination for commodities with distinct markets provides additional policy options to support farm income. While both the USA and Canada have implemented price discrimination policies in their domestic dairy...

This paper takes into account technological and output constraints for firms to analyse Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) regulation. We first esamine an original dataset of french Brie cheese producers and compare the cost structure of PDO producteurs with non-PDO ones. The paper also finds...