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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Oligopsony Power: Evidence from the U.S. Beef Packing Industry
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| Autores: |
Cai, Xiaowei
Stiegert, Kyle W.
Koontz, Stephen R.
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| Data: |
2009-05-01
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Margin
Beef Packing
Fed Cattle Prices
Markov Regime Switching
Industrial Organization
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| Resumo: |
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/24/09.
Based on Green and Porter's (GP) noncooperative game theoretic model, oligopsonists are hypothesized to follow a discontinuous pricing strategy in equilibrium. The model allows for low procurement prices during cooperative phases and high procurement prices (i.e. aggressive purchasing) during noncooperative phases. In this paper, the GP model is applied to the U.S. beef packing industry. Anecdotal evidence of beef packer margins and relevant processing costs suggest part of the margin variability could be attributed breakdowns and returns to cooperative phases. To operationalize the GP framework, we applied Hamilton's regime switching model assuming first order Markov process to test for the cooperative/noncooperative behavior of beef packers in three main fed cattle markets in the central United States and the whole U.S. market. We found that the evidence of cooperative/noncooperative conduct among the beef packers is present in all the markets examined, but the conduct varies across markets.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/49364
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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| Formato: |
25
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