Estimation of Armington elasticities: case of vegetables in Mongolia

Mongolian people often consume meat more than vegetable in diet due to traditional nomadic culture. Nowadays, the people’s has been changing who vegetables with associated urbanization (half of population live urban areas, mostly capital city). Even though consumption increased recently, market is still a high reliance on imports and threatening national food security. Since 2016, government especially paid attention increasing vegetable's domestic production substitution import (Ministry Agriculture, 2017). Therefore, this paper provided elasticity (the Armington elasticity) between Mongolia. Additionally, we estimated home bias value vegetables. The so-called elasticities are widely used for computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis, which determines degree goods domestically produced goods. Several authors studied at product level. We choose six (such as potato, garlic onion, tomato, carrot turnips, cabbage, cucumber) related lack information. empirical result shows that long-run higher short-run exception potato means products similar long-run. However, our quite lower previous studies indicated prefer growing Moreover, found even long -run, appears be relative weight vegetables.
 JEL code: F13, Q17, Q18