Meeting growing global demand for food, fiber, and biofuel requires robust investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) from both public and private sectors. This study examines global R&D spending by private industry in seven agricultural input sectors, food manufacturing, and...

Resumen:En este trabajo se hace una investigación empírica sobre los cambios en la posición de mercado de las empresas colombianas, según la Matriz Crecimiento- Participación desarrollada por la firma Boston Consulting Group. Para ello se utilizan datos de la Superintendencia de Sociedades...

This paper reviews the basic antitrust standards for the supermarket industry including definition of product and geographic markets and the exercise of coordinated and unilateral market power. It surveys the structure-conduct-performance and the New Empirical Industrial Organization literature...

This article introduces the Forum by explaining the sequence of events related to the jawboning campaign and subsequent reductions in cereal prices. It also introduces the main issues on the vigor of competition and pricing that are analyzed in subsequent papers. Jawboning as a public policy...

The financial audit – which is mandatory for publically traded companies – plays an important role in the transparency and efficiency of global capital markets. Yet, the cost of complying with the laws and regulations requiring financial statement review by external auditors can be...

This study aims to analyze the impacts of changes in the structure of the Brazilian soybean crushing industry on the performance of the soybeans complex. It was verified that the trend of concentration in the soybean crushing industry, which had already been verified by previous paper carried...

This paper studies the effects of seller concentration and static market power on tacit collusion in extensively repeated laboratory posted-offer markets. Contrary to the implications of some earlier research, we find that tacit collusion does not become pervasive with extensive repetition. In a...

Evidence is presented on the long and short run relationship between the money market interest rate and loan and deposit interest rates charged by individual Spanish banks between 1988 and 2003. The results indicate that such relationships have been determined by a mixture of adjustment costs...

This paper reviews the basic antitrust standards for the supermarket industry including definition of product and geographic markets and the exercise of coordinated and unilateral market power. It surveys the structure-conduct-performance and the New Empirical Industrial Organization literature...

Market power is important because it may lead to an inefficient and bias appropriation, meanwhile worsening productive efficiency. I have used the most important indicators for measuring market power and market concentration in this paper – the Lerner index, price dispersal and the...