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Provedor de dados: | Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
País: | United States
Título: | A Foot and Mouth Disease Induced Model of US Excess Supply of Beef
Autores: | Yeboah,   Osei-Agyeman; Ofori-Boadu,   Victor; Salifou,   Samaila.
Data: | 2008-12-23
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Excess supply; FMD; Beef prices; Bioterrorism; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade; Q17.
Resumo: | Agriculture is a vulnerable sector of the U.S economy, accounting for 13% of Gross Domestic Product and 15% of employment.  It produces quality cheap food for domestic consumption and accounts for more than $65 billion in export revenues.  Contagious animal diseases like Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) are often referred to as economic diseases because of the magnitude of harm they cause producers, local communities and the consequences in international trade.  Losses from the 2001 FMD outbreak in the United Kingdom are estimated at $10.7 to $11.7 billion. The total cost of an FMD outbreak is the sum of eradication cost, production losses, and the loss of exports.   This paper examines the export effects of a bioterrorist attack such as the introduction of FMD on the US beef industry.  The context is to model the US beef market as a price taker on the international beef market, the simplifying “small open economy” assumption of international economics.  Although, the beef market is linked to beef prices around the world, we tend to conceive of the US beef market in terms of domestic supply and demand and the resulting domestic equilibrium price. The excess supply of beef is the difference between quantities supplied and demanded that increases with price and responds to other influences on domestic supply and demand. We assumed that U.S consumers will exercise more caution when purchasing beef at grocery store as a result of the outbreak of FMD. As U.S consumers alter their diet, poultry and pork will become good substitutes with poultry having a higher demand than pork. The economic impact of FMD is simulated based on expected changes in price of beef and its substitutes based on three different scenarios of the levels of FMD occurrences.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/46053
Relação: | Southern Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2009 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia
Formato: | 16