Recently the pricing problem of a monopolist producing several different qualities of a product has received some attention in the literature. Mussa and Rosen (1978) studied the optimal product mix of a monopolist producing ...

Modern agricultural marketing systems are often highly complex structures with a range of inter-linking players operating within diverse trading environments. To compare the effectiveness of one agricultural marketing ...

Monopolies - you either love them or hate them - depending on your philosophy. This project for the 1997 Kellogg's Rural Leadership Programme does not attempt to justify nor to condemn their existence. Rather it attempts to ...

The New Zealand Beef Industry is a niche producer of a global commodity which is undifferentiated in the market place. Being grass fed beef from a huge number of different breeds, we have a product that lacks consistency ...

The widely recognized externalities associated with livestock disease control have prompted countries throughout the world to invest in centralized control schemes designed to lower disease prevalence. As disease levels ...