This paper studies the issue of locational market power of suppliers in a market that is situated on a network. Locational market power arises when locational advantage allows suppliers to act non-competitively and raise prices above competitive levels. We propose a quantifiable definition of locational market power and analyze its properties over a general network. We also conduct a detailed a...

over the past three decades vertical price transmission analysis has been the subject of considerable attention in applied agricultural conomics. it has been argued that the existence of asymmetric price transmission generates rents for marketing and processing agents. retail prices allegedly move faster upwards than downwards in response to farm level pricemovements. this is an important issue...

Poor access to agricultural market information is a major factor constraining the performance of agricultural markets in developing countries. The search for new strategies for resolving this constraint has led to several ICT-based market information service (MIS) projects in developing countries. At the same time, the rapid penetration of new generation ICT tools (especially mobile phones) has...

in this study economic and welfare impacts of establishing irrigation water market in qazvin province as well as potentiality of irrigation water transfer under stress irrigation conditions in the cities of qazvin province were analyzed. to achieve the above objectives, positive mathematical programming model and state wide agricultural production functions were used. to achieve applicable resu...

The QFD Quality Function Deployment technique large scope of application, has in this article, an approach based on how it is connected within the Technological Management Tools (TM Tools) range elected by the authors. Market Analysis, Technology Forecast, Benchmarking, Teambuilding, Networking, Creativity, Change management and others tools, depends strongly for its success. Employees involvem...

In order to understand the success of world banks, we will analyze marketing tools used by foreign specialists in field banking. At same time, it is necessary define concepts "bank marketing" and tools". Bank process regularly improving efficiency bank's activities with help a certain set within framework interaction concept taking into account market strategy based on opinion, preferences need...