Profile analysis of market participants' attitudes toward selected market alternatives for US shelled peanuts

✍ Scribed by J. E. Epperson; M. H. So; S. M. Fletcher; D. H. Carley

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 900 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0742-4477
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(198809)4:5<433::aid-agr2720040504>3.0.co;2-p

✦ Synopsis

The analysis identified factors affecting market participants' attitudes toward selected market alternatives for US shelled peanuts using a mirrorimage survey design and multivariate probit. Agreement or disagreement among shellers, among processors. and between shellers and processors is ascertained via matching patterns of mirror-image profiles. Results indicate that the computerized cash market might hold promise as a starting point in the implementation of a centralized market for shelled peanuts with or without the government program in effect.