Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 

About: Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization is an academic journal published by De Gruyter. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Market power & Agriculture. It has an ISSN identifier of 1542-0485. Over the lifetime, 295 publications have been published receiving 4954 citations. The journal is also known as: JAFIO & Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization (Internet).

Potential Land Use Implications of a Global Biofuels Industry

Abstract: in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/).

Market Segmentation via Mixed Logit: Extra-Virgin Olive Oil in Urban Italy

Abstract: The paper presents some results from a stated-preference study that compares three samples of urban consumers of extra-virgin olive oil from three representative Italian cities: Naples (South), Rome (Centre) and Milan (North). A series of multinomial logit models are estimated from choice experiments responses and tested for unobserved heterogeneity for EU labelling informing on PDO/PGI, organic and place of origin attributes. The consequences of such form of heterogeneity are flashed out with respect to issues of market segmentation on the basis of the pattern of correlation across preferences as estimated from mixed logit models. Results indicate that product origin matters differently in different cities, while the sample from Naples is the least heterogeneous the Milan and Rome samples display highest taste heterogeneity, but also stronger intensity of taste.

Economics of Private Labels: a Survey of Literature

Abstract: This paper is a survey of the recent literature devoted to the economics of private labels. After providing some statistics about the development of private labels for different products in different OECD countries, the survey outlines what the literature says about the factors that favor the development of private labels, the reasons retailers introduce private labels, and the consequences of their development for the relationship between manufacturers and retailers. Issues that are less frequently addressed in the literature are also highlighted. The survey closes with discussing the impact of the development of private labels on welfare.

Fuel Ethanol Subsidies and Farm Price Support

Abstract: Ethanol subsidies are well established in U.S. policy and have high priority in corn growers' political agenda. This paper develops a vertical market model of ethanol, byproducts, and corn which is used to analyze whether corn growers would prefer the government's subsidy dollar to be spent directly on corn subsidies (though deficiency payments) rather than on a subsidy on ethanol made from corn. Because the subsidy dollar has to be shared with ethanol manufacturers under the ethanol subsidy, it is to be expected, and the model confirms, that a dollar spent on a direct corn subsidy increases corn growers' producer surplus more than an a dollar spent on an ethanol subsidy under many plausible values of the relevant parameters. But there are equally plausible parameter values under which the ethanol subsidy is preferred by corn growers. The economics of this result turn mainly on the price discrimination an ethanol subsidy creates between ethanol and corn used for feed and export purposes, reducing the buyers' price of ethanol and byproducts but increasing the price of corn fed and exported. This enables producers of corn and ethanol to increase their joint producer surpluses above the total value of subsidies paid. The paper also analyzes the social cost (deadweight loss) of these subsidies, and finds the ethanol subsidy to generate deadweight losses likely to be in the billions of dollars annually.

Technical and financial feasibility analysis of distributed bioprocessing using regional biomass pre-processing centers.

Abstract: Research indicates that large biorefineries capable of handling 5000-10000MT of biomass perday are necessary to achieve process economies. However, such large biorefineries also entail in-creased costs of biomass transportation and storage, high transaction costs of contracting with alarge number of farmers for biomass supply, potential market power issues, and local environmen-tal impacts. We propose a network of regional biomass preprocessing centers (RBPC) that forman extended biomass supply chain feeding into a biorefinery, as a way to address these issues. TheRBPC, in its mature form, is conceptualized as a flexible processing facility capable of pre-treatingand converting biomass into appropriate feedstocks for a variety of final products such as fuels,chemicals, electricity, and animal feeds. We evaluate the technical and financial feasibility of asimple RBPC that uses ammonia fiber expansion pretreatment process and produces animal feedalong with biorefinery feedstock.KEYWORDS: ethanol, biofuels, biomass pretreatment, distributed preprocessing, biomass sup-ply chain