Agricultural Volatility and Market Power in Food Industry
Résumé
This paper treats on how agricultural prico volatility affect firms in food industry and how they source their input from local suppliers or from international market in a risky environnement. We show that agricultural volatility can rise profit in the downstream sector for more productive firms, at the expense of less productive ones. In addition, we show that import competition on the agricultural sector can lead to lower agricultural prices on the local market than on the international market.