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Quality Certification by Geographical Indications, Trademarks and Firm Reputation

Menapace, Luisa; Moschini, GianCarlo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

which both certification and trademarks are available. Shapiro’s (1983) model of reputation is extended to reflect both … collective and firm-specific reputations, and this framework is used to study certification and trademarks for food products with … with asymmetric information and moral hazard problems, credible certification schemes reduce the cost of establishing …

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Producer's choice of certification

Langinier, Corinne; Babcock, Bruce A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

certification costs, certification that fully reveals information makes high quality producers better off, but make the entire … industry worse off. In this case, the benefit from the revelation of the quality does not outweigh certification costs and the … rather than full revelation for some values of the certification costs. …

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The Price of Disclosure in the Thoroughbred Yearling Market

Plant, Emily J.; Stowe, C. Jill - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

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Public and Private Institutional Responses to Advocacy Attacks: The Case of the Global Cocoa Industry and Child Labour Abuse

Clark, Alexandra; Gow, Hamish R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

Over the past decade the global agri-food industry has come under increasing attack by advocacy groups related to their production and marketing processes (Bowmar and Gow, 2009). Advocacy groups have used these attacks to exploit the growing intergenerational disconnect between consumers and...

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Third Party Certification and the Effectiveness of Voluntary Pollution Abatement Programs: Evidence from Responsible Care

Vidovic, Martina; Khanna, Neha; Delgado, Michael S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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Governance Issues in the Principal-Agent Framework: Producing Cellulosic Ethanol in Michigan

Pandey, Vivek; Shanoyan, Aleksan; Ross, Brent - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

This article analyzes the incentives and compensation problems faced by cellulosic ethanol producer and logging firms and the consequent impact on the organization of the wood based cellulosic ethanol industry in the US. The success of this relationship is central to setting up the biofuel...

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Information efficiency in a lemons market: Evidence from Bt cotton seed market in Pakistan

Ma, Xingliang; Spielman, David J.; Nazli, Hina; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

regulations on seed certification, labeling and packaging seek to remedy this problem, such regulations are often difficult to …

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Beneficial selection and the efficient procurement of ecosystem services

Russell, Noel P.; Sauer, Johannes - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

It has bee suggested by many authors that adverse selection in government schemes for the procurement of ecosystem services impairs both the efficiency of these schemes and the value for money that they deliver to taxpayers and funding agencies. However, recent research considers that these...

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Aflatoxin Contamination of Maize in Kenya: Observability and Mitigation Behavior

Hoffmann, Vivian; Mutiga, Samuel; Harvey, Jagger; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Using a unique dataset of maize samples and consumer interviews form Eastern Kenya, we find that the presence of the fungal contaminant aflatoxin is negatively associated with the use of maize flour for food. While food remains the most common use of maize regardless of the presence of the...

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Growing their own: Unobservable quality and the value of self-provisioning

Hoffmann, Vivian; Gatobu, Ken - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Many important food quality and safety attributes are unobservable at the point of sale, particularly in informal markets with weak reputation effects. Through a framed field experiment conducted in western Kenya, we show that farmers place a large premium on maize they have grown themselves,...

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