Chidmi, Benaissa; Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Cotterill, Ronald W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2003
This paper assesses the independent and joint impacts of oligopoly power of market intermediaries and the Northeast Dairy Compact (NEDC) on fluid milk prices in Boston. Empirical results reveal that price increases due to oligopoly power far outweighed those caused by the NEDC by more than 10...