The political economy of quality measurement: a case study of the USA slaughter cattle market
As agricultural products move from being economic commodities to qualitydifferentiated goods, price dispersion within specific markets increases and implicit subsidies from high quality producers to low quality producers are removed. The present paper examines how these distributional effects can influence patterns of support and opposition to changes in marketing arrangements. The simple model developed is calibrated using data from the USA slaughter cattle market. Estimates of the impact on prices of measuring quality more accurately are found to be similar in size to previous estimates of market power price suppression in the market.
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2002
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Authors: | Whitley, John E. |
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - AARES. - Vol. 46.2002, 4
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Publisher: |
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - AARES |
Keywords: | Livestock Production/Industries |
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