Food Marketing Policy Center Research Reports

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126: Optimal Brand and Generic Advertising Policies in a Dynamic Differentiated Product Oligopoly

Sylvie Tchumtchoua and Ronald Cotterill

125: Buy What Is Advertised on Television? Evidence from Bans on Child-Directed Food Advertising

Rui Huang and Muzhe Yang

124: Carbonated Soft Drink Choices and Obesity

Rigoberto Lopez and Kristen Fantuzzi

123: A Structured Covariance Probit Demand Model

Michael Cohen

122: Determining the Impact of Retailer Store Brand Procurement on Vertical Relationships with Brand Manufacturers and on Market Equilibrium

Michael Cohen

121: Evaluating Health Care Externality Costs Generated by Risky Consuption Goods

Michael Cohen and Marina-Selini Katsaiti

120: Identifying Consumer Preferences for Nutrition Information on Grocery Store Shelf Labels

Joshua Berning, Hayley Chouinard, Kenneth Manning, Jill McCluskey and David Sprott

119: Assessing the Impact of Retailer Store Brand Presence on Manufacturer Brands in an Equilibrium Framework

Michael Cohen and Ronald Cotterill

118: WIC Contract Spillover Effects

Rui Huang and Jeffrey Perloff

117: Measuring the Impact of Nutrition Labels on Food Purchasing Decisions: A field experiment with scanner data

Joshua Berning, Hayley Chouinard and Jill McCluskey

116: Exposure to Obesity and Weight Gain among Adolescents

Muzhe Yang and Rui Huang

115: Variety: Consumer Choice and Optimal Diversity

William Horrace, Rui Huang and Jeffrey Perloff

114: Evaluating Coordinated E¤ects: An application to the US beer industry

Frederik Beelitz

113: Functional Foods as Differentiated Products

Alessandro Bonanno

112: The Competitive and Welfare Effects of New Product Introduction: The Case of Crystal Pepsi

Wei Xiao

111: Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Estimation in Practice

Michael Cohen, Philip Shaw and Tao Chen

110: The Impact of Retail Store Brands on Manufacturer Brands: A Generalization of Steiner’s Elasticity Model

Michael Cohen and Ronald Cotterill

105: An Empirical Investigation of Wal-Mart’s Expansion into Food Retailing

Alessandro Bonanno

104: Demand for Differentiated Milk Products: Implications for Price Competition

Elena Lopez and Rigoberto Lopez

103: Wal-Mart’s Monopsony Power in Local Labor Markets

Alessandro Bonanno and Rigoberto Lopez

102: Semiparametric Bayesian Estimation of Random Coefficients Discrete Choice Models

Sylvie Tchumtchoua and Dipak Dey

101: Is Wal-Mart Good for Competition? Evidence from Milk Prices

Rebecca Cleary and Rigoberto Lopez

100: The Strategic Effect of Private Label in a Vertical Bargaining Model

Li Tian and Ronald Cotterill

99: Measuring Brand Value in an Equilibrium Framework

Avi Goldfarb, Qiang Lu and Sridhar Moorthy

98: Market Definition and Market Power in the British Supermarket Industry

Ronald Cotterill

97: Consumer Demand for Quality: Major Determinant for Agricultural and Food Trade in the Future?

Julie Caswell and Siny Joseph

96: Private Labels: Supermarket Chain Buyer Power in Action

Ronald Cotterill, Michael Cohen and Li Tian

95: Estimation and Inference in Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models: A SAS/IML Procedure for a Bootstrap Method

Sylvie Tchumtchoua

94: Competition Effects of Supermarket Services

Alessandro Bonanno and Rigoberto Lopez

93: Pricing and Policy Problems in the Northeast Fluid Milk Industry

Ronald Cotterill

92: Asymmetric Response of Retail Milk Prices in the Northeast Revisited

Daniel Lass

91: The Theory of Price Collars: The Linking of Prices in a Market Channel to Redress the Exercise of Market Power

Li Tian and Ronald Cotterill

90: Market Power and Price Competition in U.S. Brewing

Christian Rojas

89: Estimating Demand for Differentiated Products: The Case of Beer in the U.S

Christian Rojas and Everett Peterson

88: Antitrust Analysis of Supermarket Retailing: Common Global Concerns that Play Out in Local Markets

Ronald Cotterill

87: Does the King Use Its Power? Price Competition in U.S. Brewing

Christian Rojas

86: Strategic Pricing in a Differentiated Product Oligopoly Model: Fluid Milk in Boston

Basak Canan and Ronald Cotterill

85: Food Protection for Sale

Rigoberto Lopez and Xenia Matschke

84: PAYING FOR SHELF SPACE: AN INVESTIGATION OF MERCHANDISING ALLOWANCES IN THE GROCERY INDUSTRY

Adam D. Rennhoff

83: RETAIL OLIGOPOLY POWER, DAIRY COMPACT, AND BOSTON MILK PRICES

Benaissa Chidmi, Rigoberto Lopez and Ronald Cotterill

82: Private Labels, Retail Configuration, and Fluid Milk Prices

Alessandro Bonanno and Rigoberto Lopez

81: Oligopolistic 'Agreement' and/or 'Superiority'?: New Findings from New Methodologies and Data

George Jakubson, Kap-Young Jeong, Donghun Kim and Robert T. Masson

80: Market Structure, Price Pass-Through and Welfare with Differentiated Products

Donghun Kim

79: Estimation of the Effects of New Brands on Incumbents' Profits and Consumer Welfare: The U.S. Processed Cheese Market Case

Donghun Kim

77: The Impact of the Northeastern Dairy Compact on New England Consumers: A Report from the Milk Policy Wars

Ronald Cotterill

76: Dairy Policy for New England: Options at the State and Regional Level

Ronald Cotterill

75: Perspectives on Global Concentration and Public Policy

Ronald Cotterill

74: Oligopoly Pricing with Differentiated Products: The Boston Fluid Milk Market Channel

Ronald Cotterill and Tirtha Dhar

73: Milk Prices in New England and Neighboring Areas of New York: A Prologue to Action?

Ronald Cotterill, Adam Rabinowitz and Li Tian

72: Variation in Organic Standards Prior to the National Organic Program

T. Robert Fetter and Julie Caswell