Price Transmission in Differentiated Product Market Channels: A Study of the Boston Fluid Milk Market and the North East Dairy Compact

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dc.creatorDhar, Tirtha Pratim
dc.creatorCotterill, Ronald W.
dc.date2017-04-01T17:15:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T03:49:53Z
dc.descriptionThis study develops a two-stage market channel model to analyze pricing in the Boston milk market where retailers are differentiated sellers. A nonlinear model of demand and costs, including firm specific and industry cost shift variables is estimated for each of the four leading supermarkets. Cost pass through rates for industry wide shifts are near 100%; for firm specific costs they range between 32 and 47 percent, suggesting that substantial differentiation and related market power. A test for focal point collusion finds that channel firms elevated retail prices when the Northeast Dairy Compact elevated and stabilized raw milk prices.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.25174
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25174/files/rr020067.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25174
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/540588
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25174
dc.titlePrice Transmission in Differentiated Product Market Channels: A Study of the Boston Fluid Milk Market and the North East Dairy Compact
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