Price Transparency as a Prerequisite for Fair Competition: The Case of the European Food Prices Monitoring Tool

In this chapter we examine the European Food Prices Monitoring Tool as a case study to improve price transparency and, as a result, competitiveness in the European food system. We first analyze the relation between price transparency and fair competition

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Harvey S. James, Jr. Editor

The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition

The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

VOLUME 20

Series Editors Michiel Korthals, Wageningen University, Department of Applied Philosophy, The Netherlands Paul B. Thompson, Michigan State University, Department of Philosophy, USA Editorial Board Andrew Brennan, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Lawrence Busch, Sociology, Michigan State University, USA Andrew Dobson, Keele University, United Kingdom Richard Haybes, University of Florida, USA Darryl Macer, UNESCO Office in Bangkok, Thailand Clare Palmer, Texas A&M University, USA Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Avner de-Shalit, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Editor Harvey S. James, Jr. Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA

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