Transações sob incerteza: uma análise institucional do mercado pecuário de Santana do Livramento/RS

Abstract

The present work investigates the presence of uncertainty in the business plan of the livestock market in the municipality of Santana do Livramento/RS. Given the In the new institutional economy approach, uncertainty is present and is an important attribute of the transaction. From this perspective, it was studied the different types of uncertainty existing in the commercialization of cattle between producers and slaughterhouses operating in the region. In methodological terms it was used the Fuzzy method of analysis, especially for enabling the study of diffuse aspects obtained from the selected variables. Thus, it was sought analyze whether there is uncertainty in livestock transactions and how they, in their three types of uncertainty for Williamson, affects negotiations between producers and meatpackers. Therefore, from the application of the questionnaire in rural intermediaries, it was noticed that uncertainty is present in the livestock market, varying only in the level at which every uncertainty affects producers