On the relative advantage of cooperatives

Svend Albæk and Christian Schultz ()
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Svend Albæk: Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen

No 1998-02, CIE Discussion Papers from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Industrial Economics

Abstract: We show that the fact that farmers in a cooperative individually decide how much to supply to cooperative may serve as a commitment device for credibility (and profitably) gaining market share in competition with a profit maximizing firm.

Keywords: cooperatives; commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L22 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 1998-04
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Published in: Economics Letters. June 1998; 59(3): 397-401

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