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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Agricultural cooperatives and quality-enhancing R&amp;D in the agri-food system
Autores: | Drivas,   Kyriakos; Giannakas,   Konstantinos.
Data: | 2007-06-27
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | Open Membership Cooperatives; Product Innovation; Mixed Oligopoly; Retained Earnings.; Agribusiness; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.
Resumo: | This paper develops a game - theoretic model of heterogeneous consumers to analyze the effect of cooperative involvement on quality- enhancing product innovation activity, the pricing of food products, and the welfare of the groups involved in the context of a mixed duopoly where an openmembership consumer co- op competes with an IOF. Analytical results show that the involvement of the member welfare- maximizing co- op in R&amp;D can be quality and welfare enhancing by increasing the arrival rate of product innovations and reducing the prices of food products. The effectiveness of the co- op is shown to depend on the nature of product differentiation and the relative quality of its products, the degree of consumer heterogeneity, and the size of innovation costs .
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

26594

http://purl.umn.edu/10075

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;98th Seminar, June 29-July 2, 2006, Chania, Crete, Greece

Seminar Paper

Formato:

36

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