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Avian Influenza outbreaks and poultry production mitigation strategies in the U.S.

Mu, Jianhong H.; McCarl, Bruce A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE; … - 2010

In this paper, two AI mitigation strategies are examined, quarantine and vaccination. Meanwhile, associated welfare … without vaccination. Once comes to livestock producers, impacts become significant although magnitudes are small. For example …, under 20% demand shocks, vaccination strategy dominates no vaccination at the production, market and national level. However …

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Optimal Management of a Native Species Facing Species or Pathogen Invasion Risks Involving Multi-Stable Outcomes

Horan, Richard; Finnoff, David; Reeling, Carson; Berry, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA

Many invaded ecosystems appear subject to regime shifts—abrupt changes from one state to another after crossing a threshold or tipping point. The stability landscapes of such multi-stable systems, including their associated thresholds, have been shown to be endogenously determined within a...

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Willingness to Pay for Biodiesel in Diesel Engines: A Stochastic Double Bounded Contingent Valuation Survey

Jeanty, Pierre Wilner; Haab, Timothy C.; Hitzhusen, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

The double bounded dichotomous choice format has been proven to improve efficiency in contingent valuation models. However, this format has been criticized due to lack of behavioral and statistical consistencies between the first and the second responses. In this study a split sampling...

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Emerging Markets for GM Foods: A Study of Consumer's Willingness to Pay in India

Deodhar, Satish Y.; Ganesh, Sankar; Chern, Wen S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

A random utility approach is used to estimate logit equations which indicate what factors affect the likelihood of consumption of non-GM and GM foods, and, whether or not consumers are willing to pay a premium for non-GM/GM foods. Ceteris paribus as the price difference between non-GM and GM...

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Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods in Taiwan: Is Positive Discount the Same as Negative Premium?

Kaneko, Naoya; Chern, Wen S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

This paper finds Taiwanese consumers' willingness to pay a premium on the non-GM food differs from their willingness to accept a discount on the GM food. It further finds that the non-GM choosers are more committed to the non-GM food than the GM choosers to the GM food.

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Land Use Change and Ecosystem Valuation in North Georgia

Ngugi, Daniel; Mullen, Jeffrey D.; Bergstrom, John C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

A model of land allocation at the aggregate watershed level was developed assuming profit/net benefit maximization under risk neutrality. The econometric land use model was analyzed as an equation by equation SURE model as all the independent variables were the same for both equations. In...

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Public Acceptance of and Willingness to Pay for Nanofood: Case of Canola Oil

Zhou, Guzhen; Hu, Wuyang; Schieffer, Jack; Robbins, Lynn - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Nanotechnology has tremendous potential in food and agriculture. Few economic studies focused on specific products made using nanotechnology, let alone food or food related products. Using a national choice experiment survey, this analysis examines consumers’ valuations for nano-attributes. As...

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An Examination of Consumer Willingness to Pay for Local Products

Adalja, Aaron; Hanson, James; Towe, Charles; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

This paper uses stated and revealed preference data from a choice-based conjoint survey instrument to estimate willingness to pay for distance-based local food products. The survey was administered to three different groups of respondents: members of a consumer buying club, a random sample of...

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Consumer preferences for apple quality traits

Carrillo-Rodriguez, Lilian; Gallardo, Karina; Yue, Chengyan - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

This study investigates the marginal values consumers place on apple quality traits as part of a larger SCRI project whose goal is to increase the long-term economic sustainability of Rosacea crops by increasing the U.S. per-capita consumption of fruits. Information on consumers’ preferences...

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Finding True Consumer Attitudes: Do Validation Questions Help?

Gao, Zhifeng; House, Lisa; Bi, Xiang - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

A survey with validation question was delivered to 3475 respondents to study the impact of using validation question to improve data quality. Results show that The respondents who passed the validation question had significantly older ages, higher median incomes and higher education levels. The...

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