Market Power in the Food Industry: The Swedish Egg Supply Chain

dc.contributor.author	Ostrowski, Virginia
dc.contributor.author	Öhrn, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-24T08:26:46Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-24T08:26:46Z
dc.date.issued	2021-08-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/69427
dc.description	MSc in Economics	sv
dc.description.abstract	There is an ongoing discussion about the potential increase of market power in the food industry. This study investigates the evolution of market power in the egg supply chain between egg producers and egg packers, using firm-level data from 2001-2019. We use traditional concentration measures and newly developed methods to estimate markups using separate production technologies for egg producers and packers. The markup for egg producers increased between 2002 and 2008, mainly declined between 2008 and 2016, and increased after 2016. For egg packers, markup increased until 2008 and mainly declined after. We find that producers' productivity has a positive impact on packers' markup.	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Master Degree Project	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2021:117	sv
dc.subject	Market power	sv
dc.subject	competition	sv
dc.subject	food industry	sv
dc.subject	markups	sv
dc.subject	productivity	sv
dc.title	Market Power in the Food Industry: The Swedish Egg Supply Chain	sv
dc.type	Text
dc.setspec.uppsok	SocialBehaviourLaw
dc.type.uppsok	H2
dc.contributor.department	University of Gothenburg/Graduate School	eng
dc.contributor.department	Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School	swe
dc.type.degree	Master 2-years