The demand for pork in Sweden : how was it affected by the MRSA-outbreaks in Denmark?

Sammanfattning: Sweden is a large importer of Danish pork. Roughly one third of the total import of pork to Sweden is Danish pork. During 2014 media uncovered that 9 out of 10 Danish pigs carries the MRSA-bacteria. This thesis researches how the outbreaks of the MRSA-bacteria in Danish pig stables affected the demand for pork in Sweden. . It will treat economic and econometric theory such as the log-log model and the Armington model. The topic will be researched with the help of data from different databases such as Eurostat and Statistics Sweden. Methods will be applied based on the theory in the purpose of finding structural change in the data set. The results from the methods showed a significant indicator for structural change due to the MRSA-outbreak and that the demand for pork in Sweden has changed because of it.