Presence of Check-off Programs and Industry Concentration in the Food Manufacturing Sector

Lee Schulz and John Crespi

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The authors examine industry concentration for the U.S. food manufacturing sector. This study is the first to examine whether particular subsectors within the food manufacturing industry, which operate in the presence of industry-funded check-off programs such as marketing orders, are more or less concentrated than industries without such research and marketing programs. The authors find evidence to the hypothesis that industries with demand-enhancing check-off programs have lower concentration relative to industries without these programs.

Keywords: check-off programs; industry structure; marketing orders; U.S. food manufacturing industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D29 D49 L11 L5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-04-15
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Published in Agribusiness: An International Journal, April 2012, vol. 28 no. 2, pp. 148-156

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