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The Demand for Food Consumed at Home and Away from Home

Lamm, R. McFall Jr. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1982) 3

Over the last 20 years, consumers have spent a declining portion of their income on food for consumption at home, while the share of income spent on meals purchased at restaurants, cafeterias, and fast-food chains has held constant This article attempts to explain this phenomenon by estimating a...

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Coffee Consumption and Prices in the United States

Daly, Rex F. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1958) 3

The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

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The Almost Ideal Demand System: A Comparison and Application to Food Groups

Blanciforti, Laura; Green, Richard - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1983) 3

This article presents estimates of the almost Ideal demand system (AIDS) for four food groups_and compares these estimates WI~h the AIDS' own linear approximate version and the linear expenditure system The AIDS IS indirectly nonadditive and has several desirable properties, making it a Viable...

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An Analysis of Certain Estimates of Food Requirements and Demand

Burk, Marguerite C. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1951) 1

Current pressure of demand on our food supplies, resulting from the accelerated defense program, has renewed the general interest in the food needs of our civilian population. Concepts of food needs vary from minimum quantities of food required to maintain health and activity to full consumer...

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Productivity and Food Processing Costs

Waldorf, William H. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1962) 1

productivity research, and who has watched the continuing rise in marketing charges for farm products, the inevitable question is …: What can measures of productivity tell us about the continued rise in the Farm-Food Marketing Bill and the Farm-Food Market … a third of the Farm-Food Marketing Bill. The eventual product of this area of research should advance our knowledge of …

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Monthly Retail Demand for Bread

Moriak, Theo F.; Logan, Samuel H. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1971) 3

Researchers have found it difficult to estimate reliable elasticities of demand for bread. The reason for this difficulty undoubtedly has been the lack of data regarding consumption (production) levels for bread. This paper reports the results of a statistical demand analysis for bread and...

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The Impact of the Voluntary Anti-Inflation Program on Retail Food Prices

Lamm, R. McFall Jr. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1981) 1

The general purpose of the voluntary anti-inflation program was to limit price increases in markets where firms have discretionary price-setting power Results suggest that the program was partly successful with respect to some domestic food markets Retail prices for cereals and bakery products,...

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Effects of Relative Price Changes on U.S. Food Sectors, 1967-78

Schluter, Gerald; Lee, Gene K. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1981) 1

For a half-century the parity ratio has served as the most commonly used measure of the effects of relative price changes on the farm economy The authors present a consistent economic model which measures the price-related income effects of relative price changes in selected sectors of the U.S....

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Lease-Financing and Returns to Capital of Food Marketing Firms

Hiemstra, Stephen J. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1962) 1

The changing structure of the food marketing system focuses attention on competitive relationships existing in food …

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The Bank-Charge-Account Plan and Retail Food Marketing

Townshend-Zellner, Norman - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1960) 4

marketing, as well as the food producing, processing, and distributive sectors, indirectly, may become involved to a significant … degree in a consumer credit operation. The purpose of this report is to explore the rather complex marketing implications … attention is devoted to the potential impact of the credit system on marketing costs and practices, retail prices and …

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