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Presence of Check‐Off Programs and Industry Concentration in the Food Manufacturing Sector
Author(s) -
Schulz Lee L.,
Crespi John M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/agr.21287
Subject(s) - food industry , manufacturing sector , food sector , business , agricultural economics , econometrics , industrial organization , economics , food science , agriculture , chemistry , labour economics , geography , archaeology
The authors examine industry concentration for the U.S. food manufacturing sector. This study is the first to examine whether particular subsectors within the food manufacturing industry, which operate in the presence of industry‐funded check‐off programs such as marketing orders, are more or less concentrated than industries without such research and marketing programs. The authors find evidence to the hypothesis that industries with demand‐enhancing check‐off programs have lower concentration relative to industries without these programs.[JEL Classifications: L11, L5, D29, D49]