Marketing Cooperatives in the U.S.: Membership Policies, Market Power, and Antitrust Policy

摘要: This paper explores some of these issues and briefly considers their implications for antitrust policy toward cooperatives. Two central questions are: What is the extent restricted as opposed to open membership cooperation in United States? If an observable pattern policies exists among cooperatives, what might explain it? These require observation analysis numerous market factors, important one being which marketing cooperatives have gained power final product markets. The full significance empirical findings requires understanding certain basic theoretical considerations. Theoretical Considerations Recent advances theory make considerable use average revenue (ARP) function shows alternative levels input maximum price a firm can pay that input, given all other costs been met.1 corresponding marginal (MRP) rate change total associated with various input. That part MRP