Agricultural cooperatives and quality-enhancing R&D in the agri-food system
| dc.creator | Drivas, Kyriakos | |
| dc.creator | Giannakas, Konstantinos | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:46:36Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T02:57:45Z | |
| dc.description | This paper develops a game - theoretic model of heterogeneous consumers to analyze the effect of cooperative involvement on quality- enhancing product innovation activity, the pricing of food products, and the welfare of the groups involved in the context of a mixed duopoly where an openmembership consumer co- op competes with an IOF. Analytical results show that the involvement of the member welfare- maximizing co- op in R&D can be quality and welfare enhancing by increasing the arrival rate of product innovations and reducing the prices of food products. The effectiveness of the co- op is shown to depend on the nature of product differentiation and the relative quality of its products, the degree of consumer heterogeneity, and the size of innovation costs . | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.10075 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10075/files/sp06dr03.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10075 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/523751 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10075 | |
| dc.title | Agricultural cooperatives and quality-enhancing R&D in the agri-food system | |
| dc.type | Text |