米国の牛肉流通の中間過程での問題点 : 主としていわゆる"Thin Market"について

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In the U. S. A., "Thin Market" may create many problems, especially on the meat productions. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the change of "beef-marketing structure" and to analyes the situations. The results are as follows: 1) The concentration of trade for meat slaughtering and processing plants have been expanded, so that local oligopolic trend on the purchasing side of live cattle is spreading. 2) As a result of the concentration, direct-trade between cattle producers and slaughterers (including processors), has rapidly made reduced the volume of transactions of cattle in the central markets in the areas. 3) An increasing trend of the "boxed beef" has contributed to progress an efficiency of meat production, but is magnifying more the differences of the scale. 4) There has been raised a question for "Thin Market" which is usually meant that the number of volume of transactions becomes so small as unwarranted price behavior occurs. 5) In these contexts, the major problems in the meat marketings currently going on is abstructed to following two subject: a) One is to establish a alternative market such as, so called, "electronic" or "futures" market. b) The other is to improve the information structures, for example, an introduction of mandately reproting system on the meat transactions.
千葉大学の論文
1983-02-28