More than one year after the outbreak of COVID-19, fruit and vegetable markets continue to adjust to the evolving landscape. In this article, we focus on three key measures of input and output market performance that serve as indicators of the stability of fruit and vegetable markets in the...

All foods for sale in the US are now required to carry disclosure labels if they contain ingredients with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but the longstanding and widespread market presence of voluntary non-GMO labels raises questions about their role. Past legislative and voter-initiated...

"Hard discounters" are retail formats that set retail food prices even lower than existing discount formats, such as Walmart and Target. Offering limited assortments and focusing on store-brands, these formats promise to change the competitive landscape of food retailing. In this paper, we study...

This paper considers and assesses the concept of social externalities through humaninterdependence, in relation to the economic analysis of externalities in the tradition of Pigou andArrow, including the analysis of the commons. It argues that there are limits to economic analysis. Our proposal...