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Do subsidies cause a less competitive milk market in China?

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  • Yuquan Chen
  • Xiaohua Yu

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After 2008, China dairy industry has experienced a consolidation supported by the government mainly for the reason of food safety. Subsidies are one of the tools to shape a concentrated market with goals of reducing regulation cost and accomplishing quality control. This gives a serious concern that subsidies would generate a less competitive dairy industry. We construct a parametric model and use the firm‐level panel data, specifically the top eight dairy firms, to test if government subsidies strengthen the market power in the dairy industry. Our empirical results indicate government subsidies have a negative impact on the Lerner index for the top privately owned firms, but no significant effect on state‐controlled ones after controlling for advertising, time trend, and proprietorship. It is possible that the subsidies give more room for private firms to increase the scale or suppress the price, which eventually reduces the market power and benefits dairy customers in the downstream.

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  • Yuquan Chen & Xiaohua Yu, 2019. "Do subsidies cause a less competitive milk market in China?," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 50(3), pages 303-314, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:agecon:v:50:y:2019:i:3:p:303-314
    DOI: 10.1111/agec.12485
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    1. Dai, Jiawa & Feng, Yuchen & Wang, Ziuqing & Yuan, Guang, 2021. "Does higher market power necessarily reduce efficiency? Evidence from Chinese rice processing enterprises," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 24(1).
    2. Rao Fu & Chenguang Li & Liming Wang, 2021. "Market Power in the Irish Beef Processing Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-18, June.
    3. Wen Yue & Jianhua Wang, 2020. "Government Subsidies and Firm-Level Markups: Impact and Mechanism," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-21, March.
    4. Yuquan Chen & Xiaohua Yu, 2022. "Estimating market power for the Chinese fluid milk market with imported products," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(2), pages 386-401, April.

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