@article{Götz:195731,
      recid = {195731},
      author = {Götz, Linde and von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan and Kachel,  Yael},
      title = {Vertical Price Transmission in the International Fresh  Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chain: Israeli Grapefruit  Exports to the EU after Export Liberalisation},
      journal = {Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture},
      address = {2014-05},
      number = {892-2016-65232},
      series = {Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 53 (2014)},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {We investigate competitiveness and price behaviour in the  Israeli citrus export sector
following the removal of the  government export monopoly and the entry of private
export  companies in 1991. We identify asymmetric price  transmission for some
exporters even in the liberalized  market which only became symmetric when a
minimum price  agreement was established by the government in the  grapefruit market.
Our findings indicate that citrus  growers’ seasonal losses resulting from asymmetric
price  transmission amounted to as much as 4.0% of their total  revenues, and a much
larger share of their profits. This  result is consistent with the hypothesis that the
observed  asymmetry in price transmission was caused by Israeli  exporters exerting
market power over Israeli citrus  growers. Concluding, our analysis demonstrates that
the  liberalization of the Israeli grapefruit export market by  the abolishment of the
government marketing board alone was  not sufficient to establish a competitive
market. Rather,  an additional temporary government market intervention was  necessary
to foster competitive pricing behaviour by the  exporting companies vis-à-vis the Israeli
grapefruit  growers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/195731},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.195731},
}