Market structure and bargaining power at sugarcane industries in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

In the curse of sugarcane activity, it was observed periods of market concentration that affect the dynamics of the sector. Thus, this study aims to characterize the market structures and the bargaining power of the sugarcane industries of São Paulo, at the harvests of 2007/08. From secondary sources, actuation radius of 100 km and 25.1 km were established for the sugar cane industries and for micro-region. The market structures most observed in the micro-regions, and within a radius of 100km, are the little concentrated oligopoly structures and the monopoly and, in the radius of 25.1km, the monopoly and the little concentrated oligopoly.