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This paper presents a comparative analysis of three different economic studies that played major roles in the policy debate over the Compact. It draws an important distinction between before-after and counterfactual impact analysis and highlights constraining assumptions in models. Over time the...
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In an imperfectly competitive industry, differentiated products compete with each other with price rather than quantity as the strategic variable. Several previous studies have employed a generalized Nash Bertrand model: Liang (1989), Cotterill (1994), Cotterill, Putsis and Dhar (2000), and...
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The integration of the Finnish meat market in the EU has important implications for domesticagricultural policy. Our aim is to estimate the characteristics of the Finnish pork and beef markets inrelation to those of Germany and Denmark. Our analysis uses symmetric and asymmetric thresholderror...
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This study investigates the economic effects of external oil and food price shocks in thecontext of selected Asia and Pacific countries including Australia, New Zealand, SouthKorea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Thailand. The study is conducted withinthe framework of SVAR model using...
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The goal of this study is to estimate how different price or quantity fixing contracts affectthe value of pig space unit in pig fattening. The value of pig space unit is estimated with astochastic dynamic programming algorithm. The model maximises the value of pig spaceunit by using four...
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Cointegration of Canadian and U.S. livestock prices points to the existence of market integration in the period 1996:1 to 2004:12 even though the trade flows of livestock and beef products were non-existent for many months in 2003 and 2004 (suggesting market segmentation) due to livestock/beef...
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Preconditioning calf programs, while not new, are becoming more prevalent. They provide benefits to cow-calf producers while adding value for feeder cattle buyers. However, questions remain regarding the marginal returns from marketing preconditioned calves exceeds the marginal costs for...
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An inverse live hog demand model was estimated to analyze claims that the live hog own quantity demand flexibility's magnitude has increased in recent years. A second objective of this research was to estimate the impact changes in processing capacity utilization rates have on live hog prices....
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O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar o comportamento histórico dos preços pagos ao produtor de bovinos de corte e os preços pagos pelos consumidores por diferentes cortes de carne bovina no Rio Grande do Sul nas últimas décadas. O estudo foi realizado com base em duas séries...
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O presente artigo tem por objetivo analisar a estrutura e comportamento da série de preços mensal recebido pelos produtores de suíno do Estado do Paraná no período de 06/1994 a 08/2007. Para isso, a série de preços do suíno foi decomposta em seus elementos não observáveis: tendência,...
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