@article{Merel:44209,
      recid = {44209},
      author = {Merel, Pierre R.},
      title = {Is There Market Power in the French Comte Cheese Market?},
      address = {2008},
      number = {725-2016-49696},
      pages = {10},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {An NEIO approach is used to measure seller
market power in  the French Comté cheese market,
characterised by  government-approved supply control.
The estimation is  performed on quarterly data at the
wholesale stage over the  period 1985-2005. Three
different elasticity shifters are  included in the demand
specification, and the supply  equation accounts for the
existence of the European dairy  quota policy. The
market power estimate is small and  statistically
insignificant. Monopoly is rejected, as well  as weak
forms of Cournot oligopoly. Results appear to be  robust
to the choice of functional form, and suggest little  effect
of the supply control scheme on consumer prices.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/44209},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.44209},
}