Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Panos FOUSEKIS Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Author-Name: Dimitrios PANAGIOTOU Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Title: Price and location equilibria in a circular market: a pure vs a mixed duopsony with a co-operative Abstract: The objective of the present paper is to analyze the location-price competition in circular markets where the power lies with the buyers. To this end, it considers two alternative market structures. Namely, the pure ones, where the buyers of a primary commodity are private firms, and mixed ones, where a private firm competes against a producer's co-operative. According to the results, the pure-strategy location equilibrium in both cases involves a distance between the two players larger or equal to 1/4. Nevertheless, the equilibriums are qualitatively different. In the pure duopsony, a large distance is required to prevent a price war while in the mixed duopsony, the private firm tries to stay away from the co-op in order to ensure a strictly positive profit. Keywords: circular spatial competition, market power, mixed oligopsony Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 341-347 Volume: 59 Issue: 8 Year: 2013 DOI: 10.17221/129/2012-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/129/2012-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201308-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:59:y:2013:i:8:id:129-2012-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Jan KOUDELKA Author-Workplace-Name: University of Economics and Management, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Segmentation of Czech consumers as for their relationship to organic foods Abstract: Products of organic agriculture have gained a significant attention among consumers. It creates a visible impact also on the products of conventional agriculture. This leads to the necessity to apply target marketing at the food resp. organic food markets. The objective of this article is to explore the possible approaches to the process of market segmentation at these consumer markets. The data of the Market & Media & Lifestyle were used. Variables of food consumer behaviour and lifestyle were especially selected. Three lines of market segmentation were inferred from the basic conceptual approaches: a priori segmentation, post hoc segmentation and forward segmentation. The data were analysed in several steps using multidimensional analyses. The results indicate a different marketing potential of the investigated approaches. A priori segmentation seems to be more proper for the purpose of the sales management. A broadly based post hoc segmentation should be useful when the concept of marketing communication is to be created. The elaborated forward segmentation approach will take place when the marketing strategy is evaluated. Keywords: approaches to market segmentation, consumer behaviour, food market, target marketing Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 348-360 Volume: 59 Issue: 8 Year: 2013 DOI: 10.17221/15/2013-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/15/2013-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201308-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:59:y:2013:i:8:id:15-2013-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eugenio POMARICI Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics and Policy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Author-Name: Riccardo VECCHIO Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics and Policy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Title: The Italian olive oil industry in the global competitive scenario Abstract: The current paper analyzes the reasons behind the difficulties of the Italian olive oil industry to compete in the world markets. The analysis highlights that these complexities can be related with two core factors: stagnant demand in the main producer/consumer countries and strong competition arising from the Spanish olive oil industry increasingly involved also in processing and trade. In addition, these weakness factors are boosted by the market power exerted by large retail chains that are now the main channel in which olive oil is retailed in the domestic market. Keywords: competitiveness, consumption, Italy, retail, Spain Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 361-372 Volume: 59 Issue: 8 Year: 2013 DOI: 10.17221/8/2013-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/8/2013-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201308-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:59:y:2013:i:8:id:8-2013-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Behzad FAKARI Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province, Iran Author-Name: Mohammad Mehdi FARSI Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province, Iran Author-Name: Mostafa KOJOURI Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Agricultural Economics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province, Iran Title: Determining fluctuations and cycles of corn price in Iran Abstract: Corn is the third important agricultural product. It is an important input in the poultry production and the basic elements of edible oil, starch, glucose, and raw material in industrial production of ethanol and some other products. The aim of this study is to find strategies to avoid price volatility, hence, the harmonic method has been used to investigate the corn price cycle and the GARCH model has been used to investigate its fluctuation. The harmonic method results showed long-term cycles in the period of 21 months in analyzing the period and the GARCH model result indicated that the corn price fluctuations causes more fluctuations in the corn future prices, in addition the error terms that have less contribution in the conditional variance. Based on the characteristics of the corn price variation obtained in this study, the policymakers should provide a proper condition to encourage sellers and buyers to deal in the Agricultural Mercantile Exchange and use future and option contract to control the price volatilities. Keywords: corn, GARCH, harmonic pattern, Iran agricultural mercantile exchange, price fluctuations Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 373-380 Volume: 59 Issue: 8 Year: 2013 DOI: 10.17221/141/2012-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/141/2012-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201308-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:59:y:2013:i:8:id:141-2012-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Himayatullah KHAN Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Development Studies, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan Author-Name: Farman ALI Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Development Studies, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan Title: Measurement of productive efficiency of tomato growers in Peshawar, Pakistan Abstract: The present paper estimates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of tomato growers. The study was conducted in two villages, namely, Tarnab and Akbarpura of the District Peshawar, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The data were collected by conducting a farm level survey of 300 tomato growers in the study area. The findings show that there was a big gap between the maximum and minimum technical efficiency indices, with an average technical efficiency index of 66%. There was also a huge gap between the highest and the lowest index of allocative efficiency of tomato growers. Economic efficiency indices also varied significantly. The study concluded that the farmer education, extension visits, age and access to credit were the significant determinants of these efficiencies. One of the most important policy implications of this study is that there is enough potential to increase the present level of efficiencies for tomato production in the study area. Keywords: equity and efficiency, economics, developing countries, economic change, economic development Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 381-388 Volume: 59 Issue: 8 Year: 2013 DOI: 10.17221/107/2012-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/107/2012-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-201308-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:59:y:2013:i:8:id:107-2012-AGRICECON