Food demand

• 'Econometric Analysis of some Trade issues for Meat (with K Cao)' pp 157-161, Papers presented at the Tenth Annual Conference of the New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Blenheim, June 2004, AERU Discussion paper No 151. ISSN 1170-7607 ISBN 0-909042-53-5. This paper, delivered at the annual conference of the NZ Agricultural Economics Society in July 2004, concerns trade impacts of recent policy issues on the destination of NZ trade in meat products (beef and veal, lamb and mutton). The countries concerned are Australia, Canada, China, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, UK, and US. Policy issues include tariff rate quotas in some markets and food safety regulations. Results indicate both high and low price and income elasticities in different markets according to their size and maturity. Both quota and food safety are significant explanatory variables.

• 'Impacts of Mandatory Meat Hygiene Regulations on the New Zealand Meat Trade', by K Cao and R Johnson. This paper was accepted for publication on the University of Melbourne AgriFood website on 10 April 2006. The paper outlines how gravity models can be employed to analyse trade in New Zealand meat to nine different destinations for the period 1994-2003. The driving forces on the economic side are incomes in importing countries and prices received in New Zealand terms. Quota restrictions impede growth in some markets but hygiene regulations are seen as a positive force in encouraging trade in sheepmeat.