A Strategic Rationale for Captive Supplies

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-18

  Love, H Alan ^a   Burton, Diana M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward integration; Captive supplies; Dominant firm; Fringe firms; Meat packing; Monopsony; Price discrimination; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033434710     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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