Argentine government policies: impacts on the beef sector

Beef is a staple food for Argentine consumers, and although the country has been a major exporter, the highest proportion of beef production is consumed in the domestic market. With rising inflation rates in the last 5 years, and given the beef prices' strong weight on the composition of the Co...

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Published in:Agricultural and food economics 2017-12, Vol.5 (1), p.1-14, Article 1
Main Authors: Rossini, Gustavo, Arancibia, Rodrigo García, Guiguet, Edith Depetris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural Economics
Agriculture
Argentine beef exports
Beef
beef cattle
Cattle
Consumer Price Index
Consumers
Consumption
Domestic markets
Economic policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Exports
Food
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
inflation
Inflation rates
Intervention
market economy
meat production
Policy impacts
prediction
prices
staple foods
Time series
VAR model
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Summary:Beef is a staple food for Argentine consumers, and although the country has been a major exporter, the highest proportion of beef production is consumed in the domestic market. With rising inflation rates in the last 5 years, and given the beef prices' strong weight on the composition of the Consumer Price Index, the Argentine government began taking measures to control it. They initially forced price agreements with members of the marketing and production chain and ended up with a total ban on exports. The results were not as expected and caused serious distortions at different levels of the beef chain. This study aimed to determine whether the impact on some economic and production variables would have been different without such intervention. A VAR model was estimated in order to compare the observed behavior with intervention measures and estimated predictions with a theoretically free market.
ISSN:2193-7532
2193-7532
DOI:10.1186/s40100-016-0070-9