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Supermarkets Price Competition in Dallas Fort Worth Fluid Milk Market

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Chidmi, Benaissa
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This paper estimates the effect of the price war on the fluid milk demand in the Dallas-Fort Worth market and assesses the supermarket pricing conduct through estimating the price-cost margins of the retailers in selling fluid milk, and how these margins vary with the price war. The findings that supermarket chains in Dallas-Fort Worth market exercise market power and that demand for mil is insensitive to price changes.

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Paper provided by Southern Agricultural Economics Association in its series 2007 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2007, Mobile, Alabama with number 34961.

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