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...

In 2020, an antitrust lawsuit was filed against the Pork Integrators alleging a §1 Sherman Act violation. At the center of the Lawsuit, there is an alleged exchange of atomistic information about the Pork integrators’ operations using Agri Stats, Inc. as a clearinghouse. We use the Supreme...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prices of agricultural products often vary in relatively stable patterns around their long‐run trends. These variations translate into fluctuations of selling prices as well as farm revenues. We provide an overview of the current literature on agricultural price cycles. Using a transparent and...

A firm‐level model of three‐site hog production is used compare a franchise organizational structure to a three‐firm alliance. The results of the simulations imply that the franchise system is better equipped to mitigate underproduction in the nursery and finishing units, the nursery and...

The impact of lags in the production and marketing of agricultural products on the degree of exchange rate pass‐through in export prices is investigated. The predictions of the theoretical model are tested by investigating Canadian pork export prices in the United States and Japan. The...

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...

Hog, corn, and soybean meal futures are shown to be cointegrated, reflecting the close intrinsic relationship of corn and soybean meal as the primary feed for hogs. Applying a recent technique to date-stamp pricing bubbles we further show that bubbles in feed do not appear to be associated with...

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 failures...

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...

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

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 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...

Overbuilding in commercial real estate in the 1980s is commonly viewed as an example of a speculative bubble. This paper questions that view and proposes an environment in which overbuilding could occur as a rational response to fiscal policy in the 1980s. Further, this paper contends that...