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The impact of avian influenza on the Korean egg market: Who benefited?

  • Jun Ho Seok
  • , Gwan Seon Kim
  • , Michael R. Reed*
  • , Soo Eun Kim
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Kentucky
  • Jeonbuk Institute

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Abstract

The historical decomposition and directed acyclic graph methods are employed to estimate the effect of avian influenza in Korea on egg price transmission between the farm, wholesale, and retail levels. Our findings suggest that farm and retail egg prices are connected by the wholesale price. We also find that the farm-wholesale and the wholesale-retail margins increase during the avian influenza period. Our results imply that the retailer and wholesaler use their market power to increase their price during the food safety crisis. Therefore, the Korean government should control market power by allowing more emergency egg imports.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)151-165
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Policy Modeling
Volume40
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018.01.1

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Avian influenza
  • Directed acyclic graph
  • Historical decomposition
  • Market power
  • Price transmission

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