Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry?

Jason R.V. Franken, Joost Pennings () and Philip Garcia

No 37599, 2008 Conference, April 21-22, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri from NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management

Abstract: Studies of hog industry structure often invoke risk reduction and transaction costs explanations for empirical observations but fail to directly examine the core concepts of risk behavior and transaction costs theories. Using a more unified conceptual framework and unique survey and accounting data, this study demonstrates that that risk preferences and asset specificity impact Illinois producers’ use of contracts and spot markets as suggested by theory. Factor analytic methods limit measurement error for indirectly observable risk and transaction costs variables employed in logit regressions. In particular, related investments in specific hog genetics and specific human capital regarding the production process increase the probability of selecting long-tem contracts over spot markets. Producers who perceive greater levels of price risk and/or are more averse to it appear more (less) likely to use long-term contracts (spot markets), and hence, to make such investments.

Keywords: Agricultural; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37599/files/confp04-08.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry? (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:nccest:37599

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.37599

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2008 Conference, April 21-22, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri from NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().