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标题：OPTIMAL ORGANIZATION OF A STATEWIDE LIVESTOCK AUCTION MARKET SYSTEM: THE CASE OF TENNESSEE
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作者：McClain, Emily A. ; McLemore, Dan L.
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：1987
页码：121-131
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：Optimal sizes, number, and locations of Tennessee livestock auction markets were identified as those which minimize the combined costs of assembling and marketing livestock for the state using a separable programming model. The model includes transportation costs, economies of size in market operation, a proxy for reductions in buyers' operating costs attributable to increasing market volumes, and livestock production density, both in and around the state. The model is sufficiently comprehensive and descriptive to be of practical use by policy makers who influence industry change. Results indicate that a reduction in market numbers would lower combined costs.