High potato price volatility, decreasing demand for fresh potatoes and prices below the cost of production led to a decision of a number of Idaho potato growers to organize the United Fresh Potato Growers of Idaho, a marketing cooperative. The programs and strategies of the cooperative target...

The concept of social protection falls under the purview of Social Risk Management and it consists of several public measures like, reducing vulnerability, improving consumption and enhancing equity which contributes to the economic development in a participating manner. The Government of India...

This study develops a simple methodology of the analysis of the effectiveness of economic performance of foodmanufacturing industries and applies this methodology to analyze the effectiveness of economic performance of foodmanufacturing industries in the U.S. Pacific Northwest States (Idaho,...

The New York State Milk Price Gouging Law establishes that the retail prices of fluid milk products are not to exceed 200% of the prices that NYS milk processors pay for Class I milk. The enforcement of this law significantly affected the nature of the Class I fluid milk price transmission...

Using the overcharge estimates for 333 cartel episodes, we evaluate the effect of cartel characteristics and changes in the market and legal environment on the magnitude of overcharges imposed by private cartels in the United States and other geographic markets as early as the eighteenth...

We use extended ARCH and GARCH models to examine the differences in the behavior of the first two moments of the price distribution during collusive and competitive phases of two recently discovered conspiracies, citric acid and lysine. According to our results, the conspirators managed to raise...