This study intends to determine the farm-retail price transmission behaviors of pork in Malaysia to serve as a good … implication for pork pricing system in Malaysia. Using data from January 1997 to December 2008, both the Houck and ECM approaches … were found symmetric where a change in farm price of pork was observed to have similar change in retail price of pork in …

This paper models the distribution of pork barrel when the electoral benefit of pork does not accrue to the party in … power but to the incumbent of the district where the pork was directed. The model shows that, under certain parametres, more … pork goes to core support districts. To verify this claim empirically, I first study the distribution of projects …

costs and profits. From the price spread, this paper intends to estimate elasticities of price transmission for pork in … quantitative analysis of farm-to-retail price spreads was undertaken for pork in Malaysia. It was found that retail price is the … only variable which is significant. The farm-retail price transmission for pork is very elastic. …