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57: Antitrust Economic Analysis in Food Marketing Channels

Ronald Cotterill

56: The Need for New Milk Pricing Policies

Adam Rabinowitz and Ronald Cotterill

55: How the June 2007 Extension of Oversight by the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities to All State Contracts is Counterproductive at the University of Connecticut

Ronald Cotterill

54: The Impact of the Dairy Industry on the Connecticut Economy

Rigoberto Lopez

53: Eye on Economics: A Conceptual Analysis of Farm Subsidies

Charles Rhodes

52: The Evolution of the Political Economic Foundations of Competition Policy

Ronald Cotterill

51: Annotated and Expanded Minutes of the Milk Marketing Policy Meeting

Ronald Cotterill

50: Outline of a Fair Share Milk Pricing Policy Program As Requested by Carolyn Orr, Council of State Governments after the February St. Albans, Vermont Meeting on Dairy Policy and Prices

Ronald Cotterill

49: Vertical Foreclosure: The Impact of the Proposed Reduction in Diversion Limits on the Exercise of Market Power and the Economic Performance of Milk Marketing Channels in the Mideast Federal Milk Marketing Area

Ronald Cotterill

48: Milk Pricing Matters for the Sustainability of Dairy Farmers in the Northeast

Ronald Cotterill

47: Analysis of the May 2004 Milk Price Survey with a Comparison to June 2003

Matthew Schwane, Adam Rabinowitz and Ronald Cotterill

46: Retail Milk Prices in New England, New York, and Seattle: An Unresolved Issue

Adam Rabinowitz, Matthew Schwane and Ronald Cotterill

45: Milk Pricing Problems and Solutions: An Essay on the Need for New State Level Milk Price Regulation in the Northeast, with Special Attention to Connecticut Substitute Bill No. 5642

Ronald Cotterill

44: What is the Value of Milk?

Ronald Cotterill

43: The Northeast Dairy Policy and Prices Summit Meeting

Ronald Cotterill

42: A Preliminary Response to the Report Prepared for the Massachusetts Food Association by John Schnittker titled, “An Analysis of the Cotterill Proposal”

Ronald Cotterill

41: Testimony on the Massachusetts Milk Price Situation and the Proposed Massachusetts Milk Price Gouging Law

Ronald Cotterill, Adam Rabinowitz and Matthew Schwane

40: Fluid Milk Market Channel Pricing: Monopolistic Pricing by Retailers Hurts Processors, Farmers, Consumers, and Federal Market Order Pricing

Ronald Cotterill

39: An Act Concerning the Fair Pricing of Milk

Ronald Cotterill, Adam Rabinowitz and Li Tian

38: Drafting a Connecticut Fair Milk Pricing Law: A Meeting the Competition Clause that Enhances the Competitive Position of Connecticut Processors and A Small Account Rule that Recognizes the Higher Cost of Supplying Such Accounts

Ronald Cotterill

37: Answers to Questions that Often Surface When Discussing the Proposed Connecticut Fair Pricing Milk Law

Ronald Cotterill

36: Drafting of Connecticut Fair Milk Pricing Law: Further Thoughts on the Retail Price Collar

Ronald Cotterill

35: Explanation of Farmer Benefits of the Proposed Connecticut Milk Pricing Laws Presented to Connecticut Farm Bureau Dairy Committee and Litchfield Dairy Committee Joint Meeting

Ronald Cotterill

34: Fair Pricing Mechanics

Ronald Cotterill

33: An Old and New Cooperative Alternative: Integration by Farmers Into Fluid Processing to Develop Local Brands to Capture Some of the Channel Margin

Ronald Cotterill and Adam Rabinowitz

32: Supermarkets, Stop the Gouging - Milk Prices Should Tumble $1

Ronald Cotterill

31: Supermarkets, Stop the Gouging - Milk Prices Should Tumble $1

Ronald Cotterill

30: Analysis of Two Related Milk Price Approaches to Address the Noncompetitive Pricing Problem in the Milk Industry: The 40-40 Consumer Approach and the Farmer and Consumer Fair Share Approach

Ronald Cotterill and Adam Rabinowitz

29: A Fair Share Law for Connecticut and Other Northeast Dairy States: A State Level Solution to Retail Milk Price Gouging and the Dairy Farm Crisis

Ronald Cotterill

28: A Northeast Dairy Compact Post Mortem

Ronald Cotterill

27: Comments on the Food Marketing Institutes’ Submission to the FTC Titled “Supermarket Merger Investigations and Remedies”

Ronald Cotterill

26: Who Benefits from Deregulated Milk Prices: The Missing Link is the Marketing Channel

Ronald Cotterill

25: University of Connecticut Research on Dairy Compacts and Fluid Milk Pricing: Executive Summaries, Fact Sheets, and Price Charts

Ronald Cotterill

24: Testimony on the Impact of the Northeast Dairy Compact and Market Channel Pricing Strategies on the Performance of the New England Dairy Industry

Ronald Cotterill

23: The Impact Of The Northeast Dairy Compact: A Comparative Evaluation Of Two Studies

Ronald Cotterill and Andrew Franklin

22: A PowerPoint® Deconstruction of the Farm and Retail Price Analysis Presented in "The Public Interest and Private Economic Power: A Case study of the Northeast Dairy Compact"

Ronald Cotterill and Andrew Franklin

21: Competition, or the Lack Thereof in Local Fluid Milk Markets: San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Miami and Dallas-Forth Worth

Ronald Cotterill and Michael Brundage

20: A Critique of the Current Food System

Ronald Cotterill

19: How Will the Royal Ahold Purchase Of Pathmark Supermarkets Affect Prices?

Ronald Cotterill

18: An Estimation of Consumer Benefits From the Public Campaign To Lower Cereal Prices

Ronald Cotterill and Andrew Franklin

17: Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices

Ronald Cotterill

16: What Labels Tell Us About How Foods are Prepared

Julie Caswell

15: Cheese Pricing in a Market Driven Environment

Ronald Cotterill

14: Policy Brief on the RTE Cereal Industry

Ronald Cotterill

13: Statement on the Breakfast Cereals Industry

Alfred Kahn

12: Breakfast Cereals: The Extreme Food Industry

John Connor

11: High Cereal Prices and the Prospects for Relief by Expansion of Private Label and Antitrust Enforcement

Ronald Cotterill

10: The Dairy Industry: A Connecticut Perspective

Ronald Cotterill

9: Food Cooperatives

Lawrence Haller

8: The Urban Grocery Store Gap

Ronald Cotterill and Andrew Franklin

7: Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health

Julie Caswell and Helen Jensen

6: Harvesting and Tacit Collusion in the Breakfast Cereal Industry: A Case Study of Nabisco Shredded Wheat and Post Grape Nuts

Ronald Cotterill, Andrew Franklin and Lawrence Haller

5: The Policy Environment for Food Safety and Nutrition: Regulating Quality and Quality Signaling

Julie Caswell

4: Selling It, Co-op Advertising Lags Behind Private Sector Food Companies

Richard Rogers

3: Performance Consequences of the Agricultural Cooperative Exemption

Ronald Cotterill

2: Antitrust Policy

Ronald Cotterill and James Brock

1: The Changing Structure and Performance of the Food Distribution System: Implications for Low Income Urban Consumers

Ronald Cotterill