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Assessing Time-Varying Oligopoly and Oligopsony Power in the U.S. Paper Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Bin Mei  and
Changyou Sun
Bin Mei
Affiliation:
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Changyou Sun
Affiliation:
Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
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Abstract

The U.S. paper industry has become increasingly concentrated and therefore been suspected of imperfect competition. In this study, the new empirical industrial organization approach is employed to measure the degree of oligopoly and oligopsony power in the U.S. paper industry simultaneously. The model is estimated by iterative three-stage least squares using annual data from 1955 to 2003. The results reveal that there has been significant oligopoly and oligopsony power in the U.S. paper industry, and the oligopoly power has been consistently lower than the oligopsony power.

Keywords

market powerNEIOthree-stage least squarestime-varying parametersL13Q23
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , December 2008 , pp. 927 - 939
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2008

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