Evaluation of the Price Transmission Behavior in the Meat Market of East Azarbaijan

In this study, using weekly data price For the period 2013-2014, the price transformation and causality relationship between different levels of mutton and beef market in East Azerbaijan province was investigated. According to the results of the generalized Dickey Fuller unit root test, both retail and farm price series are aggregate from one degree, and the Johansen Jocilius coefficient test results indicate a coincidence between the two price series. The results of the causality test for mutton indicate that there is no causality between farm and retail price. On the one hand, there is a one-way causality from the price of the farm to the wholesale price. On the one hand, between wholesale and retail prices, there is a causal relationship between wholesale and retail prices. The results of Granger causality estimation for the beef market indicate that there is unilateral causality from the farm price to the retail price. We also see a causal relationship between the wholesale price and the farm. On the other hand, there is a unilateral causality between the wholesaler and the retailer from the wholesaler to the retailer.