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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Oligopsony"”.
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Meatpacker conduct, oligopsony power, and live cattle price dynamics
… is used to model behavior in the meatpacking oligopsony. Theory suggests that for collusive behavior to persist in equilibrium, the oligopsony will follow a strategy with two actions: (1) a cooperative phase where low prices are paid for cattle, and (2) a noncooperative phase where cattle are …
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Price Dynamics and Spatial Market Structure for Three U.S. Southern Pine Timber Products
… dissertation, we model the economic impacts of oligopsony in the procurement of timber in the presence of significant intra-regional transportation costs and test it on three forest products (Pine Saw Timber (PST), Pine Chip and Saw (CNS) and Pine Pulpwood (PPW)) for seven U.S. south-eastern and …
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An economic model of the iron ore trade
… of the trading partners in such an oligopoly/oligopsony (or bilateral oligopoly) environment is also studied empirically with a relatively simple and tried econometric technique, borrowed from consumption and investment theory and applied for the first time for all top iron ore importers, who …
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An exploration of the effects of data aggregation and other factors on empirical estimates of market power
… The focus of this study is on measurement of oligopsony power in the U. S. beef packing/processing industry. Using Monte Carlo techniques, weekly plant or firm-level data are simulated to be representative of the U. S. beef packing industry in two broadly defined geographical procurement …
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ESSAYS ON GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKET, AND PRODUCTIVITY
<p>This dissertation studies issues at the intersection of globalization, labor market, and productivity in developing countries. It is composed of three chapters.</p> <p>Chapter 1 studies how a country's trade policy affects competition in its domestic labor market. In a heterogeneous-firm model …