A Comparative Analysis of Thai Bird's Nest Export to Chinese Market

Abstract

This study aims to explore the market situation of edible bird’s nest both in Thailand and export situation. From the market exploring would support researcher to understand the factors that would affect to the market. Researcher plan to collect data from secondary data source, which would come from literature review from electronic databases. Researcher identifies the dependent variable and independent variable that would be studied in this study. The ultimate results that would be interested in the study is competitive index and competitive factors that could affect edible bird’s nest market. The dependent variables are competitive indicator which is Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCA). The factors that could affect the dependent variables would be defined as independent variables. This study determines five independent variables which are Gross domestic product (GDP), Population, Thai Baht - Chinese Yuan Exchange rate, Fuel’s price and Bird's nest price.

Keywords: Bird's nest, Competitive, China market

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-13-08

Publication date:May 31^st 2019