Lopez, Rigoberto A.; Lopez, Elena - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2001
This article decomposes the impact of imports on domestic price-cost margins into separate price and cost effects …. Using data from 24 food-processing industries, the empirical results show that although the direct impact of imports on …-price elasticity of demand and diseconomies of scale. Further results show that the disciplining effect of imports is more preponderant …