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Buyer and Seller Response to an Adverse Food Safety Event: The Case of Frozen Salmon in Alberta

Maynard, Leigh J.; Saghaian, Sayed H.; Nickoloff, Megan - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2007

launching low-priced wild salmon products, which contributed to significant demand expansion. The analysis illustrates how a …Fish is a low-fat protein source high in omega-3 fatty acids, but in 2004 consumers also heard that farmed salmon had … the conflicting health messages. Demand estimates and time-series analysis of 2001-2006 frozen meat scanner data in …

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Integrating Routine, Variety Seeking and Compensatory Choice in a Utility Maximizing Framework

Adamowicz, Wiktor L.; Swait, Joffre - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2010

Given the large number of choices that consumers make each day it seems likely that they will generally adopt decision strategies that minimize cognitive effort, particularly with low price products such as most items found in a supermarket. One such strategy may be to simply choose what has...

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Analysis of Value-Added Meat Product Choice Behaviour by Canadian Households

Zhang, Xu; Goddard, Ellen W. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2010

knowledge is required in order to predict changes in demand and develop new products and marketing strategies that respond to …-added meat products – the impact of value added meat types, store choices and brands preference on meat demand. The study … undertakes an empirical investigation of Canadian household value added meat demand for the period 2002 to 2007. A comparison of …

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Consumer Preferences for Biopreservatives in Beef and Pork Packaging and Testing the Importance of Product Origin

Unterschultz, James R.; Quagrainie, Kwamena K.; Veeman, … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1996

Recent food science research on packaging at the University of Alberta has focused on the use of biological agents (biopreservatives) to extend meat shelf life. This potential technology involves the introduction of microbial organisms into food packages to control or inhibit the growth of...

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GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS: CONSUMERS' ATTITUDES AND LABELING ISSUES

Veeman, Michele M.; Adamowicz, Wiktor L. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2004

Consumers' attitudes to genetically modified (GM) food ingredients and their reactions to and preferences for labeling of GM food are topical issues for Canadian food policy and are the subjects of this study. This project included several components. The first of these was an assessment of...

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The Effects of Relative Price and Health Information on Derived Demand for Sweeteners in the U.S. Food Processing Industry

Hailu, Getu; Thangaraj, Rawlin; Cranfield, John A.L. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2007

The purpose of the study is to examine the differential effects of relative prices and diet-health link information on the degree of substitution between corn and cane sugar in the U.S. food processing sector. Our results suggest that the nature of the relationship between cane and corn sugar is...

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Evaluating the Quebec Beef Market: An Alberta Perspective

Vincent, Michel; Unterschultz, James R.; Price, Mick; … - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1996

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Old World Wines Revisited: Consumers' Valuation of Spanish and German Wines in the UK Wine Market

Steiner, Bodo E. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2009

the expense of Old World Wines. This paper reviews supply and demand-side characteristics of the UK wine market during …

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The Transmission of Price Trends from Consumers to Producers and Tests of Market Power

Lkassbi, Driss; West, Gale E.; Clark, J. Stephen - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 2008

. Results are based on commercial disappearance as a proxy for consumer demand and therefore confounding between uncompetitive …

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Symmetry Problem in the Linear AIDS Model: Further Results

Chen, Kevin Z. - Department of Resource Economics and Environmental … - 1996

AIDS. The bias in the implied values of demand elasticities is more serious in the US data set. Also the mean …This paper derives a set of linear and nonlinear restrictions to make a n-goods linear AIDS symmetric when all prices … linear AIDS symmetric at mean. This indicates an additional advantage of scaling prices at their means before estimation …

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