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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Unilateral vs. Bilateral Incentives: Evidence from the U.S. Pork Industry
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| Autores: |
Jang, Jongick
Miller, Douglas J.
Sykuta, Michael E.
Won, Seoung Joun
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| Data: |
2009-05-01
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Long-term contracts
Incentive effects
Price discovery costs
MGARCH model
Livestock Production/Industries
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| Resumo: |
The idea that individuals adapt their behaviors in response to changes in incentive systems is fundamental to most economic analysis. This paper incorporates the concept of price discovery costs into the incentive theory to offer a theoretical model and empirical evidence on the differential incentive effects of long-term contracts and spot markets. Using the US pork industry case where procuring intertemporally consistent weights of hogs have been critical to pork processors, we show why the effectiveness of unilaterally determined and posted incentive price for the hog quality by the pork packers on the intertemporal consistency erodes and why a bilateral incentive structure built through long-term hog procurement contracts is demanded, in the presence of volatile hog price and feed price movements. The MGARCH model analysis of USDA AMS data supported our hypotheses that long-term hog procurement contracts would help moderate the erosion relative to the spot markets, resulting greater intertemporal consistency of hog weights.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/49521
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| Relação: |
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association>2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Selected Paper
613403
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| Formato: |
36
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