Market Power Model in Iranian Red Meat Marketing Chain

Document Type : Original Article

Abstract

  Identification of price determination conduct in agriculture commodities market is an important problem in marketing process because market structure and conduct conditions (competitive or non-competitive) can affect produced agriculture commodity, and thereby can affect surpluses of different groups of society. Utilizing monthly data for 1998-2005, marketing margin model of beef and lamb are estimated and then market power in farm and retail levels are evaluated. Results imply that there is competitiveness in farm and retail levels of beef and lamb.     JEL Classification: D41, D43