This paper investigates the extent of the market, using a switching regimes model similar to those used in stochastic frontiers estimations. We started by performing a Monte Carlo simulation on our model, seeking to evaluate its performance in terms of correctly estimating the probability of...

An exploratory market study of cowpea products in Ghana using data from case studies of consumers, personal interviews of processors and market surveillance of retail outlets indicated that the cowpea processing industry has low milling capacity, low production level, and few small operators...

This paper reviews the basic components of antitrust analysis for the supermarketindustry, including definition of product and geographic markets and the measurementof market power. The analysis of prices and profits in a market structure contextremains important, especially in countries such as...

The theory of contracts assumes that human nature is essentially opportunistic, and economic agents protect themselves against adverse selection and moral hazard by elaborating contracts. In the case of irrigated areas in the Brazilian northeast, such contracts are not necessarily formal. That...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2010. Major: Economics. Advisors: Amil Petrin and Patrick Bajari. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 124 pages, appendix pages 99-124. Ill.(some col.)

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Timothy J. Kehoe. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 101 pages.