Factors affecting marketing margins were identified and assessed using a relative price spread technique. Margins were … disaggregated into slaughter-to-wholesale and wholesale-to-retail for a more complete understanding. Marketing costs, concentration … marketing costs also explained the variation in margins. A higher degree of price transmission from slaughter-to-wholesale level …

This paper presents a model of economic behavior that explicates the phenomenon known as “orderly marketing,†which … was a main objective of the Marketing Orders agricultural program introduced early in the New Deal. Recent analyses of … marketing orders start with an implicit assumption that there is no market failure—thus, that price regulation can cause only …