Research indicates that consumers are particularly concerned about the safety of meat. Higher processed meat is perceived as more unsafe than fresh or natural meats, i.e. consumers trust processed meat less. This paper studies the relationship between perceived trust and day-to-day purchase...

Whereas a large number of empirical studies have been devoted to analysing consumer demand for specific products, much less attention has been paid to the household's demand for product variety (the number of different products consumed in a specific time period). This paper analyses consumer...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die derzeit bestehende Lücke an aktuellen Informationen bezüglich der Struktur der Nahrungsmittelnachfrage sowie bezüglich zukünftiger, haushaltsspezifischer Nachfragereaktionen zum Teil zu schließen und somit eine bessere Grundlage zur Entwicklung von...

This paper presents an analysis of the changing food risk perceptions of German consumers over the period 1992 to 2002. We analyse the respondents' general risk attitudes and their specific perceptions of food risks. Using cluster analysis we generate a typology of four consumer types. One group...