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Turning a Fish into a Brand: A Century of Rent-Seeking Strategies in the Tuna Canning Industry

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Mongruel, Rémi, Guillotreau, Patrice, García del Hoyo, Juan José, and Jiménez-Toribio, Ramón

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Over the past century, the tuna canning industry has been dominated by a few big companies, some of them having changed of ownership or merged: these oligopolistic firms are the “big three” in the USA, Van Camp, Star Kist, and Bumble Bee, the French Saupiquet, the Italian Trinity Alimentari and...

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TURNING A FISH INTO A BRAND: A CENTURY OF RENT-SEEK ING STRATEGIES IN THE TUNA CANNING INDUSTRY Rémi
Market Power and the European Tuna Oligopsony: Implications for Fisheries and Trade

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Guillotreau, Patrice, Mongruel, Rémi, and Jiménez-Toribio, Ramon

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Some recent studies have shown the outstanding price linkages at the global scale between the cannery-grade tuna markets over the last decade. When it comes to price transmission along the European value chains, opposite results between the two major species (skipjack and yellowfin) are found: the market for final goods...

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European-based canning industry whatever the international raw-tuna prices, ii) the common tariff