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A theoretical and empirical investigation of the supply response in the U.S. beef-cattle industry

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  • David Aadland
  • DeeVon Bailey
  • S. Feng

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This paper investigates the response of beef cattle producers to changes in the price of cattle. Previous research has suggested that there may be a negative short-run supply response to a permanent increase in the price of cattle. We build a dynamic, rational expectations model that predicts that the supply response is generally positive, even for permanent shocks in the short run, and nests the negative supply response as a special case for appropriately restricted demand shocks. Using annual U.S. time-series data (1930-1997) and a simultaneous-equations econometric approach, we find a positive short-run supply response in the cow market and mixed evidence in the heifer market.

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Paper provided by Utah State University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2000-12.

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