Market Power and Buffer Stocks |
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| Authors: | PHIL SIMMONS DALE STAHL |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, University of New England, Armidale;Duke University, North Carolina |
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| Abstract: | The first-order conditions for a monopolist inventory holder are found under more general conditions than previously. It is found that monopolist storers facing inelastic demand will carry over more stock than they would with competition unless the elasticity of demand b increasing as price decreases or is constant. The competitive stocks equilibrium is identified and found to be Pareto optimal and hence Sams' result that there will be no losers from a rent-maximizing buffer stock policy is shown to be wrong. |
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