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| Cozzarin, Brian P.; Westgren, Randall E.. |
| U.S. hog production has become an industrialized process. New technology has caused the scale of operations to increase, and the organizational form of hog farms to change. One of the new organizational forms can be found in North Carolina and Colorado where vertical integration and/or franchise-like production methods prevail. This type of production may not be possible or appealing to some producers. Instead, they may be able to reap some of the benefits of specialization by forming strategic alliances. The purpose of the paper is to answer the question: is it possible to create the same sort of control mechanisms in a production alliance that exist in a vertically integrated firm? Production risk is potentially one of the greatest problems in an... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34479 |
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| Perloff, Jeffrey M.; Suslow, Valerie Y.; Seguin, Paul J.. |
| When a new firm enters a market and starts selling a spatially-differentiated product, the prices of existing products may rise due to a better match between consumers and products. Entry may have three unusual effects. First, the new price is above the monopoly price if the two firms collude and may be above the monopoly price even if the firms play Bertrand. Second, the Bertrand and collusive price may be identical. Third, prices, combined profits, and consumer surplus may all rise with entry. Consistent with our theory, the real prices of some anti-ulcer drugs rose as new products entered the market. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25104 |
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| Tsoulouhas, Theofanis; Vukina, Tomislav. |
| Grower discontent with tournaments as mechanisms for settling poultry contracts can largely be attributed to the group composition risk that tournaments impose on growers. This paper focuses on the welfare effects of a widely advocated regulatory proposal to prevent integrator companies from using tournaments and replace them with schemes that compare performance to a fixed standard. The analysis shows that whereas the mandatory replacement of tournaments with fixed performance standards, absent any other rules, can decrease grower income insurance without raising welfare, replacing tournaments with fixed performance standards can simultaneously increase income insurance and welfare, provided that the piece rate is correctly specified. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21833 |
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| Jarrett, Frank G.. |
| Theoretical problems involved in the reconciliation of the assumption of constant returns to scale with determinacy of firm size are discussed with particular reference to Australian farms. Various techniques for examining changes in the size distribution of firms are examined and their use demonstrated. The work is stochastic rather than deterministic. B.A.E. sheep industry survey data is used and flock size is used as the measure of farm size. The results do not suggest that inequality in the distribution of farm sizes is increasing. Growth differs between flock sizes within the same region and for the same flock size between regions. Profitability seems to be relatively larger in the medium flock sizes. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 1968 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22698 |
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| Elesbao, Ivo. |
| The contemporary rural space needs to be considered in all its diversity. The non-agricultural activities, particularly those that involve leisure and tourism, have become increasingly important and may contribute to the local economy dynamics. The aim in this work was to identify the effects of tourism on income and job generation in the rural space. The basis of the qualitative research was a case study in São Martinho, a city in Santa Catarina state. Semi-structured interviews were done with the ten people responsible for the tourism enterprises in the district’s rural area. It was noticed that the resources originating from tourism were responsible for most of the entrepreneurs’ family revenue, contributing to an improvement in their lifestyle. There... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Rural tourism; Entrepreneurs; Changes; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90424 |
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| Dimitri, Carolyn; Tegene, Abebayehu; Kaufman, Phillip R.. |
| Retail consolidation, technological change in production and marketing, and growing consumer demand for produce have altered the traditional market relationships between producers, wholesalers, and retailers. Increasingly, produce suppliers are asked to provide additional marketing services and incentives in exchange for volume purchases and other commitments by buyers. This report synthesizes the results from a multiphase project that examined the dynamics of produce marketing, the produce shipper-retailer relationship, and how changes in the produce market affect the relative market influence of producers, retailers, and consumers. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fresh fruits and vegetables; Fresh produce; Fresh produce marketing channels; Supermarket; Market power; Competition; Trading practices; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33907 |
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| Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; MacDonald, James M.. |
| Although food processing sector production is inherently linked to the availability and prices of agricultural materials (MA), this link appears to be weakening due to adaptations in input costs, technology, and food consumption patterns. This study assesses the roles of these changes on food processors costs and output prices, with a focus on the demand for primary agricultural commodities. Our analysis of the 4-digit U.S. food processing industries for 1972-1992 is based on a cost-function framework, augmented by a profit maximization specification of output pricing, and a virtual price representation for agricultural materials and capital. We find that falling virtual prices of MA and input substitution have provided a stimulus for MA demand. However,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11987 |
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