This study examines price transmission dynamics in the Hungarian pork market from 2017 to 2023, focusing on the effects of price controls implemented to combat inflation. Inflation and price control policies have been central topics in economic research due to their significant impacts on market...

Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased in recent years. A transformation of German animal husbandry systems would almost certainly result in higher production costs. Against this background, producers and the meat...

The three major meat supply chains in emerging markets are the traditional wet markets, the integrated supply chains, and the more recent collaborative supply chains. Customers in these markets are increasingly demanding safe and high-quality meat, which requires more transparency in the supply...

On January 8, 2021, China's first live-animal and live-delivery futures product—in live hogs—was listed on the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) to serve as a risk management tool. Our paper examines whether this newly-established market realized its primary functions of market quality, price...

China’s hog market faces the challenge of several external shocks, which arise from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, African Swine Fever (ASF) and related global trade uncertainties. This article develops a shocks, cycles and adjustments (SCA) model to evaluate the dynamic impact of different...

Despite wide availability of publicly reported price and quantity movements of agricultural commodities, these data alone do not easily allow one to determine whether and to what extent changing market conditions are due to shifts in underlying supply and demand curves. Such information,...

Derzeit werden in Deutschland die Nutztierhaltung und insbesondere die Schweinehaltung kontrovers diskutiert. In diesem Zusammenhang, werden die Forderungen nach höheren Tierwohlstandards lauter. Allerdings führen höhere Tierwohlstandards zu höheren Produktionskosten. Vor diesem Hintergrund...

Pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has affected both farmers and the country's economy. In this study will be analyzed aspects such as: the balance of pork made in Romania (slaughter, average weight at slaughter, total production, consumption) price, pig herds, import and export. Pork is one...

In Romania, pork represents 50% of the total types of meat consumed per capita, which places it in the first place in the hierarchical distribution of the most consumed types of meat nationally. These data underline the importance of the pig sector and the relevance of studying the economic...

We develop and evaluate quarterly out‐of‐sample individual and composite density forecasts for U.S. hog prices. Individual density forecasts are generated using time series models and the implied distributions of USDA and Iowa State University outlook forecasts. Composite density forecasts...

Over the last decade, Lithuanian pork sector faced dramatic changes, where trade relations with Russia had an important role. The research problem is defined as follows: how does the trade ban of Russia, imposed towards live pigs and pork originating from Lithuania, affect price changes on...

Media reports could help shape consumer attitudes towards food quality and safety. By introducing an information treatment with positive or negative media coverage, we study the impact on consumer preference for pork products. The hypothesis is tested by a hypothetical choice experiment with 788...

From pork to performance illuminates the politics of how public resources are spent and the difficulty of the ‘last mile’ of service delivery. Crumbling facilities, absentee teachers, and roads to nowhere waste resources and retard development in many countries around the world. These...

In March 2012, Greece conducted one of the biggest and most brutal sovereign debt restructurings ever, asking holders of Greek government bonds to take net present value haircuts of near 80 percent. Greece forced acquiescence to its terms from a large number of its bonds by using a variety of...

The objective of this study is to assess the degree and the structure of price dependence between different cuts in the US pork industry at the retail level. To this end, it utilizes monthly retail data of pork cuts and the statistical tool of copulas. The empirical results suggest that for all...

We ask whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favoured in the allocation of central government transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of legislators' birth towns receive larger transfers per capita....

Making American gehography -- Hogs at home on the range -- Working people's food -- Pigs and the urban slop bucket -- To market, to market -- Swine plagues -- Making bacon and white meat -- Science and the swineherd -- Coda: the future of hogs in America

This report analyses the market for the production, distribution and marketing of pork meat in Mexico and provides a series of recommendations to local authorities and government to improve the whole efficiency of the market.

We ask whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favoured in the allocation of central government transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of legislators' birth towns receive larger transfers per capita....

We analyze the distribution of central transfers to municipal governments for the period between the 1993 and the 2005 electoral reforms using a panel of Italian municipalities. We find evidence that being the birth town of a Member of Parliament results in an increase in yearly transfers per...

The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia's accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domestic pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector forth...

The accession of ten countries to the EU in May 2004, and of Bulgaria and Romania in January 2007, eliminated barriers to trade between old and new, and among new member states. We analyse the effects of this accession on the integration of pork markets in the EU. Our results show that the speed...