Estimation of Armington elasticities: case of vegetables in Mongolia

dc.contributor.authorUuld, Amar
dc.contributor.authorMagda, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-09T02:29:22Z
dc.date.available2022-02-09T02:29:22Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-30
dc.description.abstractMongolian people often consume meat more than vegetable in diet due to traditional nomadic culture. Nowadays, the Mongolian people’s diet has been changing who consume more vegetables with associated urbanization (half of the population live in urban areas, mostly in the capital city). Even though vegetable consumption has been increased recently, the vegetable market is still a high reliance on imports and threatening national food security. Since 2016, the Mongolian government has especially paid attention to increasing vegetable's domestic production and substitution to import vegetables (Ministry of food and Agriculture, 2017). Therefore, this paper provided to substitution elasticity (the Armington elasticity) between import vegetables and domestic vegetables in Mongolia. Additionally, we estimated the home bias value of vegetables. The so-called Armington elasticities are widely used for computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis, which determines a degree of substitution between import goods and domestically produced goods. Several of the authors studied Armington elasticities at the product level. We choose six vegetables (such as potato, garlic and onion, tomato, carrot and turnips, cabbage, and cucumber) related to lack of information. The empirical result shows that the Armington elasticities in the long-run higher than the short-run with exception of potato which means that products are similar in the long-run. However, our estimated Armington elasticities are quite lower than the previous studies result which means that Mongolian people indicated more prefer home growing vegetables than import vegetables. Moreover, we found that the home bias value is high in the short-run even long -run, this appears to be a higher relative weight on home vegetables. JEL code: F13, Q17, Q18en
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dc.identifier.citationApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (2021) ,
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.19041/APSTRACT/2021/1-2/5
dc.identifier.eissn1789-7874
dc.identifier.issn1789-221X
dc.identifier.issue1-2
dc.identifier.jatitleAPSTRACT
dc.identifier.jtitleApplied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/328509en
dc.identifier.volume15
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/apstract/article/view/10777
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerUniversity of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics and Business, Hungary
dc.subjectVegetableen
dc.subjectArmington elasticitiesen
dc.subjecthome bias valueen
dc.titleEstimation of Armington elasticities: case of vegetables in Mongoliaen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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