8th conference on "Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry"

The objective of the Conference is to discuss recent contributions in theoretical and empirical economics to the understanding of the functioning of food markets. Special attention will be given to the formal analysis of firms’ market conduct, the relationships between agriculture, the food processing industry and distribution networks, and the new issues raised by health concerns. Topics to be covered include food and health (obesity, public policy, …), marketing in food retailing, market conduct and market power in the food processing industry, contractual relationships in the agro-food chain, cooperatives and contracts, product quality, information, and food safety, intellectual property rights and biotechnology, GMO, performance and productivity analysis of the agro-food sector.