VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF SUGAR

Charles B Moss () and Andrew Schmitz

No 21754, 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The degree of vertical integration in the U.S. sugar industry between raw sugar processing and sugar refining cannot be explained using theories of vertical integration based on transaction costs (e.g. Williamson). We graphically decompose the economic rents accruing to each level in the marketing channel. Different strategies of several major sugar producing, processing and refining entities with regard to sugar quota policy are explored.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Industrial Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://purl.umn.edu/21754 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aaea00:21754

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by AgEcon Search ().