The paper focuses on markets in which firms with different ownership structures compete with each other in a one-period Nash-Cournot setting. In particular the market outcome of a duopoly of one marketing cooperative and one private wholesaler (cooperative mixed duopoly) is compared to the...

Over production is a persistent and costly problem in Norwegian agriculture. Support to agricultural production implicitly yields incentives to produce too much, i.e., causing market prices to fall below the target level, and thereby increasing the need for subsidies and additional market...