Variation of market power across different food supply chains

Research background: The analysis of the competitiveness between producers, processors and retailers in food supply chains has always been drawing a high level attention. It become even more topical issue for researchers policymakers after global crisis 2008. Purpose article: goal this paper is to analyse empirical studies market power investigate if some are systematically prone excessive than others. Methods: For study, we have collected wide range recent investigating processors’ index chains. In total, our analysis, used 472 unique estimates employed various linear regression models their determinants. Findings & Value added: Our findings suggest that, on average, reported degree USA almost twice as other countries. At same time, related meat, dairy horticulture industries higher ones Finally, observed highly perishable products tend lower associated with them, results important implications future investigation structural source unfair trade practices.