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Hedonic pricing and the role of stud fees in the market for thoroughbred yearlings in Australia
Author(s) -
Kim Jun Sung,
Mitchell Sophie Deborah,
Wang Liang Choon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
australian journal of agricultural and resource economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-8489
pISSN - 1364-985X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8489.12316
Subject(s) - sire , hedonic pricing , quality (philosophy) , economics , value (mathematics) , business , econometrics , statistics , biology , mathematics , zoology , philosophy , epistemology
Using data from one of Australia's largest thoroughbred auction houses, we investigate the price determinants of thoroughbred yearlings sold at auction. We include novel key variables to construct hedonic pricing models and examine the relative role of stud fees compared to the wide range of attributes in the pricing of yearlings. We find that the price effect of stud fees is influenced by the value buyers place on both the characteristics of sires and the characteristics of sire side siblings. The findings imply that the quality of dams a sire has been matched within the breeding market has consequential effects on yearling prices through the sire's stud fee and progeny.