The authors analyze the factors affecting U.S. shrimp consumption. Two aspects seem to affect shrimp consumption: habit formation and inventory adjustment. They conclude that the long-run and short-run price elasticities are inelastic.

In Hawaii, marketing and production conditions have led to shrinking market shares for local farm produce. The primary limiting factor to maintaining and expanding the market share of Hawaii-grown produce is inconsistent and unreliable supply, compounded by inadequate market coordination.

Data limitations often limit the time framework in which agricultural commodities are modeled and prices forecasted. Our research provides a technique to alleviate this constraint. By combining an annual econometric model with a quarterly ARIMA model, quarterly forecasts can be made which...

An eight-sector, single-period, agricultural-focused computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of Malaysia using 1983 as the base year was developed to evaluate effects from changes in the external trade environment and domestic economic policies. The simulation results demonstrate the growing...

Serious attention has always been bestowed on the stability of food markets. The government has acted on these issues through intervention on food prices that more or less creates distortion. These have been observed on U.S. and Japan. This paper develops a spatial-temporal equilibrium model for...

Analyzes the impacts of income and inflation on beef and pork retail prices.

This study develops an analytical framework for explaining both cross-sectional and intertemporal variations in the pull factors for retail sales. A reduced form equation derived from factors affecting the demand and supply of goods and services is used to explain changes in the pull factor...