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U.S. Demand for Source–Differentiated Shrimp: A Differential Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Keithly Jones ,
David J. Harvey ,
William Hahn  and
Andrew Muhammad
Keithly Jones
Affiliation:
The Animal Products, Grains, and Oilseeds Branch, Markets and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
David J. Harvey
Affiliation:
The Animal Products, Grains, and Oilseeds Branch, Markets and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
William Hahn
Affiliation:
The Animal Products, Grains, and Oilseeds Branch, Markets and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA
Andrew Muhammad
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
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Abstract

Estimates of price and scale elasticities for U.S. consumed shrimp are derived using aggregate shrimp data differentiated by source country. Own-price elasticities for all countries had the expected negative signs, were statistically significant, and inelastic. The scale elasticities for all countries were positive and statistically significant at the 1% level with only the United States and Ecuador having scale elasticities of less than one. For the most part, the compensated demand effects showed that most of the cross-price effects were positive. Our results also suggest that despite the countervailing duties imposed by the United States, shrimp demand was fairly stable.

Keywords

CBSconditional demandcountervailing dutyimportsscale elasticityshrimpC32D12Q13Q22
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , August 2008 , pp. 609 - 621
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2008

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