From Big Ag to Big Finance: a market network approach to power in agriculture

Ashwood, Loka; Pilny, Andy; Canfield, John; Jamila, Mariyam; Thomson, Ryan

doi:10.1007/s10460-022-10332-3

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“…Legal scholars affirm that “the 2,500 threshold that federal antitrust agencies use accurately determines likely anticompetitive effects” (Elhauge, 2015: 1276). The methodology used in this paper has relevance beyond the US housing markets because HHI is one of the prevailing measures used by the European Commission to assess market structure 12 (for another recent measurement of market power that uses social network analysis, see Ashwood et al, 2022).…”

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An antitrust framework for housing

Tapp

Peiser

2022

Environ Plan A

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This article contributes to debates within the financialization literature by examining the rise of monopolies in the US’ rental housing market. Drawing on a dataset of multifamily real estate transactions taken from the poorest census tracts in the US (so-called Opportunity Zones), we develop an antitrust framework and methodology for measuring market structure in housing using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. After detailing the geography of these market dynamics, we assess the specific strategies firms use to acquire market power and extract monopoly rents. This analysis reveals three critical aspects of real estate investors’ anticompetitive conduct: integration between housing subsectors, acquisition strategies that rapidly scale up ownership, and corporate forms that promote cooperation. The framework developed in this article and subsequent findings offer three directions policymakers, regulators, and activists can take to reform antitrust law and better ensure affordable housing.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An antitrust framework for housing

Tapp

Peiser

2022

Environ Plan A

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“…The past few years have been challenging, particularly in the area of SCM. Supply networks, which were already becoming more complex and extensive, have undergone profound changes and have experienced severe impacts during and after the COVID-19 pandemic [12,17,18]. This unforeseen event and its repercussions on supply networks at a global level heightened the need for tools that can provide a precise visualization of networks, actors, and the nature of the ties between them [9,13].…”

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Social Network Analysis: Applications and New Metrics for Supply Chain Management—A Literature Review

Bento,

Cruz,

Fernandes

et al. 2024

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Background: Supply chains, characterized by complexity and sensitivity, require continuous mapping to address challenges, particularly disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, Social Network Analysis (SNA) has proven valuable in analyzing how actors in a network connect and create interdependencies. However, some studies suggest that the SNA literature needs to embrace new fields of application and develop innovative metrics. Methods: The aim of this study is to clarify the role and contribution of SNA when characterizing and understanding the challenges of contemporary supply chains. A literature review was conducted to achieve this. Results: The results reveal that SNA has been applied in a wide variety of areas (e.g., manufacturing and construction sectors), with an emerging application in the tertiary sector. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate that metrics related to the network and to nodes have been used repeatedly, highlighting the need for new supply-chain-related metrics, such as the novel concept of semi-directedness. Conclusions: Despite the versatility of SNA, some aspects may limit its application to supply chain management, including shortcomings in data acquisition and the fact that SNA only allows for the visualization of network configurations, thus preventing the capture of nuances that characterize the relationships between the actors involved.

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“…The underlying logic of this discourse stems from the hubris of the marriage between Big Ag and Big Tech, whereby creating what Duncan et al (2021) term as 'ag tech'. Investments for ag tech will come increasingly from Big Finance, including asset management and private equity firms, further consolidating corporate power and private influence within the global agri-food system (Bull et al 2021;Clapp 2019;Ashwood et al 2022).…”

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Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy

Omar,

Thorsøe

2023

Agric Hum Values

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The Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy at the heart of the European Union’s Green Deal set out to create a “just transition” towards a sustainable food system, with benefits for all actors. We conducted a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to explore discourses around power in the food system and farmers’ position in the communication and implementation of the Farm to Fork Strategy. Discourse analysis encapsulates various scientific methodologies for deciphering the meaning behind the creation and communication of different forms of language and identify power dynamics, amongst other aspects. We identified two prior discourses in one of the objectives of the European Union’s new Common Agricultural Policy (2023-27). Our analysis found that the discourses, namely “rebalance power in food system” and “strengthening farmers’ position in value chains,” are marginalized in favour of an innovation-investment discourse, indicative of greater financialization and technologization based on techno-finances fixes in transforming the European Union agri-food system. We argue that entities representing agri-business interests have been influential in the policymaking process and voices representing smallholder and medium-sized farmers’ transformational discourses have been excluded.

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From Big Ag to Big Finance: a market network approach to power in agriculture

Cited by 13 publications

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An antitrust framework for housing

An antitrust framework for housing

Social Network Analysis: Applications and New Metrics for Supply Chain Management—A Literature Review

Rebalance power and strengthen farmers’ position in the EU food system? A CDA of the Farm to Fork Strategy

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