This research evaluates the effects of entry by supercenters and warehouse club retailers on the location of retail grocery sales. Drawing on location theory and empirical works, spatial econometric convergence models are specifi ed and estimated. Because grocery shopping is generally a local...

Positive functions of farmers’ specialized cooperative economic organizations were emphasized, i.e. increasing farmers’ incomes, promoting the industrialization of agriculture, optimizing agricultural structure, enhancing the standardization of agricultural production and improving...

The study quantifies the relationship between retail wine price and restaurant mark-up. Ordinary Least Squares regressions were run to estimate how restaurant mark-up responded to retail price. Separate regressions were run for white wine, red wine, and both red and white combined. Both slope...

Among processed and manufactured dairy products marketed in the United States, yogurt has one of the shortest histories and sharpest growth trends. To examine the socioeconomic factors associated with U.S. at-home yogurt demand, a demand system is used to analyze three yogurt products. Findings...

Sometimes a vegetable is just a vegetable, but how and where it is grown and sold can imbue a lowly potato with status: organic, local, Fairtrade, Peruvian! This paper examines the symbolic value of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as a vegetable delivery system using a focus group study....

Concepts of Specialized Farmers Cooperative (cooperative) and Peasants' Specialized Cooperative Economic Organization (Specialized Cooperative Organization) are introduced. Specialized Cooperative Organization having no independent status of legal person is taken as the reference object when...

Guiding ideology and objective of new agricultural science and technology service system in Beijing City are introduced based on the development status of agricultural science and technology service system in Beijing. Then, the six components of new agricultural science and technology service...

This paper introduces the basic principles and application of game theory, sets up the game model of rural construction land circulation, and analyzes the utility function results under the approval of local government of China, taking Nanhai District of Foshan City as an example. Research...

We quantitatively analyze the relationship between the industrial structure and economic growth in Guangdong Province of China from 1980 to 2006 by impulse response function and variance decomposition on the basis of the establishment of VAR model. Result shows that there is a long-term, stable...