Impact of BSE and Bird Flu on Consumers f Meat Demand in Japan

Takashi Ishida, Noriko Ishikawa and Mototsugu Fukushige ()
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Takashi Ishida: Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University

No 06-01, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the impacts of the BSE and Bird Flu on consumers f meat demand in Japan using the Almost Ideal demand system. BSE and Bird Flu scares bring about a fall in demand for beef and chicken respectively, and an upturn in demand for pork and fishery products, both of which are substitutes for beef and chicken in Japan. We also find that a Bird Flu outbreak has a negative impact on the market share for beef, although a BSE outbreak raises consumer demand for chicken. Empirical results also show that both impacts do not persist permanently, but remain for a period that might depend on the characteristics of the disease, such as incubation period, cure rate and infection risk, and on the differences in the government response to the particular disease crises.

Keywords: BSE; Bird Flu; Almost Ideal demand system; Meat Demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 L66 Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2006-01
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