@techreport{Weiss2003Buyer,
abstract = {Substantial increases in retail concentration (particularly in Europe) raise concerns
about the welfare implications for consumers. In a formal model, we argue that retailer market
power reduces upstream firms incentives to introduce new products. On the basis of a survey
of firms in German food manufacturing, the results of a negative binomial regression model
supports the proposition of a detrimental effect of retailer market power on product
innovations. This effect is mitigated if manufacturing firms also have some market power
(countervailing power). Innovations are positively related to firm?s market share in food
manufacturing.},
author = {Christoph R. Weiss and Antje Wittkopp},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {L1; O31; L66; 330; Retailer market power; product innovation; food manufacturing; Lebensmitteleinzelhandel; Nachfragemacht; Innovation; Nahrungsmittelgewerbe; Wirtschaftskonzentration; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {0303},
title = {Buyer Power and Product Innovation: Empirical Evidence from the German Food Sector.},
type = {FE Workingpaper / Universit\"{a}t Kiel, Department of Food Economics and Consumption Studies},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23595},
year = {2003}
}
