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标题：The political economy of quality measurement: a case study of the USA slaughter cattle market
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作者：Whitley, John E.
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2002
期号：suppl
页码：515-538
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：As agricultural products move from being economic commodities to qualitydifferentiated goods, price dispersion within specific markets increases and implicit subsidies from high quality producers to low quality producers are removed. The present paper examines how these distributional effects can influence patterns of support and opposition to changes in marketing arrangements. The simple model developed is calibrated using data from the USA slaughter cattle market. Estimates of the impact on prices of measuring quality more accurately are found to be similar in size to previous estimates of market power price suppression in the market.