Imperfect Competition in Multiproduct Food Industries with Application to Pear Processing

\"Nanotechnology in Food Industries: Application and Safety\"

Signaling with Imperfect Competition*

We analyze a duopoly model where …rms sell conspicuous goods to horizontallyand vertically-di¤erentiated consumers. These consumers care about both the intrinsic quality of the goods they purchase as well as the “social status”conveyed by these goods (namely, the social inference of their hidden wealth based on their purchase). Firms o¤er non-linear price and quality schedules that, in e¤ect, s...

Campaign Planning and Scheduling for Multiproduct Batch Operations with Applications to the Food-Processing Industry

W analyze planning and scheduling of multiproduct batch operations in the food-processing industry. Such operations are encountered in many applications including manufacturing of sorbitol, modified starches, and specialty sugars. Unlike discrete manufacturing, batch sizes in these operations cannot be set arbitrarily, but are often determined by equipment size. Multiple batches of the same pro...

Perfect Taxation with Imperfect Competition

This paper analyzes features of perfect taxation – also known as optimal taxation – when one or more private markets is imperfectly competitive. Governments with perfect information and access to lump-sum taxes can provide corrective subsidies that render outcomes efficient in the presence of imperfect competition. Relaxing either of these two conditions removes the government’s ability to supp...

Competition in Network Industries

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