BSE incidents in Canada. We examined the dynamics of monthly beef expenditure shares of a sample of Canadian households … Canadian households before and after the first three BSE cases which were discovered in 2003 and 2005. Our results suggest that … households’ reactions to the first three BSE events followed a similar general pattern: households reduced beef purchase …

marketing chain. To shed light on this issue, we estimate the collective impact of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and …

Household-level Canadian scanner data from 2002 – 2005 were used to identify consumer reactions to the early BSE … discoveries that severely impacted Canada’s beef industry. In all provinces, consumers reacted to the initial BSE event by … purchasing more beef, apparently to support struggling ranchers. Subsequent BSE events, however, met with reduced beef purchases …