COTTON QUALITY PRICE DEFFERENTIALS FROM TEXTILE MILLS' PERSPECTIVE: AN UPDATE

摘要

This paper investigates price discounts and premiums paid for cotton quality attributes by textile manufacturers for three US cotton producing (1997 crop) was used in hedonic price models to estimate the quality premiums and discounts for cotton from the South, Southwest, and San Joaquin Valley regions. The analysis found significant differences in price differentials across the regions under study for that year.