Full Title
ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE
Publisher
FrancoAngeli
ISSN
1126-1668 (Printed Journal)
1972-4802 (Online Journal)
Journal Issue Number
1
Journal Issue Designation
1
Journal Issue Date (YYYY/MM)
2013/04
Full Title
Potere della distribuzione moderna nelle filiere agroalimentari: il caso dell'olio d'oliva in Italia
By (author)
First Page
123
Last Page
143
Language of text
Italian
Publication Date
2013/04
Copyright
2013 FrancoAngeli srl
Introduction or preface
This paper aims to carry out a first-pass estimation of the power wielded by large-scale retail organisations in the Italian agri-food system, by using the olive oil supply chain as a representative case study. An econometric price transmission model suggests that farmers suffer from big retail's market power in the olive oil sector. Nevertheless, the increasing power of modern distribution companies in the agro-food supply chain depends on several economic, institutional and policy factors. This is a multi-faceted issue which makes us take into account not only economic but also social, policy, psychological and behavioral aspects too. This complexity can be handled using different empirical approaches: among these approaches, we explore the potential benefits of the so-called "economic-political" framework. From this approach a complex empirical estimation of power presence cannot be discounted.
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