Identification of market power in the Hungarian dairy industry: A plant-level analysis

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr ^a   Hockmann, Heinrich ^a   Fertö, Imre ^b   Bakucs, Lajos Zoltán ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hungarian dairy industry; Market power; Oligopsony; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879093988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jafio-2012-0005     Document Type: Article

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