Within the debate about developing countries export competitiveness the increasingimportance of food safety and quality standards especially in OECD countries appeals to be one ofthe major sources of concern. The paper analyses the trade performance of 73 developing countrieswithin the context...

In spite of different economic agents’interests, as well as the Administration’s effort inpromoting extensive beef-producing systems over thelast years, this kind of activity still hasn’t reached thedesirable levels, being necessary that farmers perceivean appropriate benefit which...

The overall acceptability of 202 consumers has beenanalysed by ANOVA, multiple means comparison, clusteranalysis and internal preference mapping (MDPREF). Threeclusters are found with different preference criteria. Theseclusters can also be characterized according to actual purchasebehaviour,...

Typically, big changes in the economic system lead to alterations on the disposable income of families and thus on their spending for different type of products, including food. These may imply, in the long run, a structural modification of the quality of diet of the population. After the fall...

A tanulmány bemutatja a hazai gabona keresletében bekövetkezett vertikális és horizontális átrendeződést és annak hatásait. A kérdőíves megkeresés és a mélyinterjúkból született válaszokat felhasználva, klaszteranalízis segítségével lehetővé vált a felvásárlói...

The European and Italian food system is experiencing a change in the relationship with the consumer andwith the distribution. In fact, customers are increasingly demanding, and are attracted, by products that have highquality content and a strong link with the territory.The brands with the price...

Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...

In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...

Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...

Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific skill requirements, the added costs of training inherent in hiring new workers, and the absolute demand for labour may stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of...