Commercial Disappearance and Composite Demand for Food with an Application to U.S. Meats

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dc.creatorReed, Albert J.
dc.creatorLevedahl, J. William
dc.creatorClark, J. Stephen
dc.date2017-04-01T19:17:54Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T04:10:17Z
dc.descriptionWhen elementary prices move strictly proportionately, aggregation over a group of diverse products is valid, and group demand responses can be decomposed into quality and quantity responses. This study shows that when relative elementary prices and group prices are stochastically independent, a similar decomposition is valid. Empirical results suggest consumers respond to changes in prices and income mostly by altering the quality of meat products. These findings imply that using commercial disappearance as a proxy for food demand can be misleading for policy analysis. Key words: commodity aggregation, Composite Commodity Theorem, composite demand, Generalized Composite Commodity Theorem, quantity-quality decomposition
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.30719
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30719/files/28010053.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30719
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/545888
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30719
dc.titleCommercial Disappearance and Composite Demand for Food with an Application to U.S. Meats
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