Pouliot, Sébastien; Sumner, Daniel A. - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90 (2008) 1, pp. 15-27
Recent food scares such as the discoveries of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and "E. coli"-contaminated spinach have heightened interest in food traceability. Here, we show how exogenous increases in food traceability create incentives for farms and marketing firms to supply safer food by...