Competition in the American Tobacco Industry 1911-1932 : A Study of the Effects of the Partition of the American Tobacco Company by the United States Supreme Court / Reavis Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Reavis, author.

Series:

Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 381

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1968]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the effects on the industry and individual companies of a Supreme Court decree to divide the American Tobacco Company into sixteen independent and competing units. Specifically looks at how competition among tobacco companies affected the scale of production, purchase of leaf tobacco, manufacturing and sale prices, and distribution of tobacco products.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Statistical Tables

I. The Partition of the American Tobacco Company

II. The Growth of the Tobacco Industry Since the Partition

III. Evidences of Competition in the Distribution of Business Among Manufacturers

IV. Competitive Influences Affecting the Scale of Production

V. Competitive Influences Affecting Integration

VI. Competition in the Purchase of Leaf Tobacco

VII. Evidences of Collusion in Leaf Purchases

VIII. Price Competition Among Manufacturers in the Sale of Tobacco Products

IX. Non-Price Competition Among Manufacturers in the Sale of Tobacco Products

X. Competition Among Distributors of Tobacco Products

XI. Effects of Competition on the Successor Company Earnings

XII. Financial Control of the Successor Companies

XIII. Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231880091

023188009X

OCLC:

1100449434