Is competition really bad news for cooperatives? Some empirical evidence for Italian producers’ cooperatives
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Producers’ cooperatives; Technical efficiency; Market share; J5; L2; D4;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
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