Spatial Competition In A Mixed Market - The Case Of Milk Processors

Christoph Tribl, Ulrich Morawetz and Klaus Salhofer

No 260911, 2017 International Congress, August 28-September 1, 2017, Parma, Italy from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: The spatial dimension of the raw milk market facilitates the exercise of oligopsonistic power of milk processors towards farmers. At the same time, the market is characterised by a high share of processing cooperatives (coops). Hence, coops compete with investor-owned firms (IOFs) in a mixed market. Assuming uniform delivered pricing, we theoretically analyse spatial competition in a mixed market. Our theoretical and empirical results for Bavarian milk processors confirm the so-called “competitive yardstick effect”, i.e. coops can mitigate the oligopsony power of IOFs. In our theoretical model, the strength of this effect depends on the behaviour of IOFs.

Keywords: Industrial; Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2017-08-29
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.260911

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