...Ling Ma; Alexander Nuetah; Xiuqing Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of market power and returns to scale in the determination of farm-value share. Design/methodology/approach This paper utilizes the equilibrium displacement model to investigate the role...

...Jiawu Dai; Xun Li; Hailong Cai Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure and examine the relationships between market power, scale economy and productivity for several important food and tobacco industries in China. Design/methodology/approach The model applied in this paper is based...

...Thomas Kopp; Bernhard Brümmer Purpose While traders of agricultural products are known to often exercise market power, this power has rarely been quantified for developing countries. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach In order to derive a measure, the authors...

..., the authors first test the hypothesis that there are significant oligopoly and oligopsony powers in China's dairy sector, and the latter is stronger. The authors then turn to measure these two kinds of market power using regressions of the model. Findings – The estimation results show that firms...

... in industry technology, but also allowing for the market power conduct parameters to vary in response to an industry‐wide exogenous shock. Also, the degree of price transmission under imperfect competition relative to that under perfect competition is evaluated. Design/methodology/approach Conjectural...