Testing the monopsony-inefficiency incentive for backward integration

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 585-590

  Azzam, Azzeddine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Captive supplies; Monopsony; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

BEEF PRODUCTION; EMPIRICAL STUDY; INTEGRATION PROCESS; MONOPSONY;

USA;

EID: 0030319586     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1243276     Document Type: Article

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