Market power and the volatility of markups in the food value chain: The role of Italian cooperatives

Agricultural cooperatives have often been promoted as a way to increase their market power and to obtain stability of profit against uncertainty. This paper estimates the firm-level markups and markup volatility to identify the countervailing market power of cooperatives in the Italian fruits and ve...

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Autores principales: Lee, Hyejin, Swinnen, Johan, Van Cayseele, Patrick
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143664

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