...Rob Kuijpers; Esther Smits; Cedric Steijn; Nasser Mulumba; Marsy Asindu; Froukje Kruijssen; Enoch Mutebi Kikulwe Purpose There is widespread belief that intermediaries in African agri-food value chains have disproportionate market power. In this paper, the authors examine this belief by uncovering...

...Malú N.P.S. Cerqueira; Danilo R.D. Aguiar; Adelson Martins Figueiredo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate firm strategies and the exertion of market power in the brewing sector in Brazil following a merger between the two largest brewers (Brahma and Antarctica) that created Ambev...

...Jiawu Dai; Xiuqing Wang; Guang Yuan Purpose The effect of market power on allocative efficiency is one of the most important topics in industrial organization and has undergone rigorous investigation since the 1970s. However, empirical studies based on firm-level data are relatively rare...

... and market power of intermediaries on the supply chain. Findings Despite markets being integrated and no significant climatic shocks to production there exists a strong element of uncertainty in market arrivals of onions, pointing toward the market power immediate downstream the production...