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Market Power in the European Dairy Industry

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  • Čechura, Lukáš
  • Žáková Kroupová, Zdeňka
  • Hockmann, H.

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The paper presents an analysis of market power in the output milk-processing market. In particular, the paper identifies market failures in the output milk-processing market in 24 EU member states. The analysis is based on a mark-up model and the application of stochastic frontier methodology. The results show that market failures are pronounced on the EU output milk-processing market. However, the abuse of oligopoly market power is not large on average, despite the fact that we can find significant differences among the countries. The mark-up distribution is skewed toward lower values. That is, the majority of companies are characterized by only a small or almost no degree of market power; however, there are companies (about 10 %) with considerably high oligopoly market power.

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  • Čechura, Lukáš & Žáková Kroupová, Zdeňka & Hockmann, H., 2015. "Market Power in the European Dairy Industry," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 7(4), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aolpei:231891
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.231891
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