Detailed weekly sales transactions data for the period January 2000-June 2001 from three frontier markets in the central corridor of West Africa were analyzed to identify the factors influencing short-run, intra-year cattle prices. The empirical results indicate that in addition to market...

Tree clearing is widely practised in Queensland to develop exotic pastures to enhance pasture production and hence the financial gains. One of the major woodland community i.e. brigalow (Acacia harpop hylla) was targeted for clearing in the early 1950s due to its fertile soils. Recently, some...

Although the key concept of a quota is simple – to set a limit on production – the market and welfare implications of operating a quota system are relatively complex. The purpose of the analysis reported in this paper is to address two aspects relevant to an evaluation of quota systems. First,...

The challenge of implementing EU quality and safety standards for food production and trading is one of the driving forces behind the restructuring of the agrofood chains in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The progress made in the compliance process not only varies amongst sectors...

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...

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...

This paper documents the extent of cooperative penetration into branded dairy product markets and presents case study evidence on competitive strategies in the skim/low fat milk, whole milk, cottage cheese, butter, margarine, and ice cream markets. We employ data for 51 local market areas from...

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...

Cow/calf producers operating in the Dakotas were surveyed on their price discoverystrategies, marketing channel preferences, and their perceptions of how regimechange in the public price reporting system for fed cattle affected the beef industryin general and the cow/calf industry in particular....

Personal interviews were conducted with 52 Louisiana cow-calf producers todetermine their preferences for a livestock revenue insurance (LRI) product.Conjoint analysis was utilized to determine the importance of selected attributesof insurance policies for these producers. Two-limit tobit models...