ABSTRACT In this article, we study the main determinants of price for Italian red wine sold on the domestic market via the estimation of a hedonic price function for the period 2005–2009. For each bottle considered, our dataset contains several characteristics, such as the price by retail...

Italian wine is one of the most famous products worldwide and yet very little is known about the main determinants of its price, especially on the domestic market.In this article we show the main determinants of price for Italian red wine sold on the domestic market through the estimation of an...

We use a unique dataset to estimate the hedonic price function for Italian red wine sold on the Italian market in the period 2006-2008. For each bottle considered, the dataset allows us to know several characteristic such as the price by retail channel (price in supermarkets and in wine shops),...

We use a unique dataset to estimate the hedonic price function for the Italian red wine sold on the Italian market in the period 2006-2008.

Unidimensionality, or the fact that the items in a questionnaire measure only a single construct, is a fundamental requirement for the Rasch model. The paper deals with the detection of unidimensionality making use of principal components analysis of residuals and item fit statistics. Simulated...