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Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production

Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2022

low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …

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Developing food labels for improved health outcomes : Insights into simplified nutrition labelling policies

Giner, Céline - 2023

displayed on food products at the front-of-pack. Forty-four countries have introduced these types of labelling schemes with a … influence reformulation efforts by the food industry as well as consumers' purchasing decisions. The schemes differ, however …

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Products and Prejudice : Measuring Country-of-Origin Bias in U.S. Wine Imports

Brooks, Eileen L. - 2008

Should exporters worry about country-of-origin bias? Although the pervasiveness of country-level product advertising suggests that they do, lack of data has limited the empirical study of subjective bias toward products from a specific country. Using data from the U.S. wine industry, including...

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Consumers' willingness to accept gene-edited fruit : an application to quality traits for fresh table grapes

Uddin, Azhar; Rickard, Bradley; Alston, Julian Mark; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-30

Given the increasing number of applications in agriculture of gene editing, specifically CRISPR, it is important to understand consumers' perceptions of this breeding technology. We estimate consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for selected quality attributes of table grapes developed using...

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Mobile phones and Mozambique traders : what is the size of reduced search costs and who benefits?

Zant, Wouter - 2019

We investigate to what extent the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique reduced transport costs and search costs, and thereby decreased spatial price dispersion and improved market efficiency. Estimations are based on data of transport costs of maize grain and maize market prices....

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Impact of mobile phones on staple food markets in Mozambique : improved arbitrage or increased rent extraction?

Zant, Wouter - 2017

I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...

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Household Food Consumption in Turkey

Akbay, Cuma - 2010

This paper analyses Turkish household food consumption, using data from the 2003 Turkish Household Expenditure Survey …-alcoholic beverages than all other food products. Regional and seasonal differences and socio-demographic factors are as important as the … conventional economic variables in explaining observed differences in the household's food consumption patterns in Turkey …

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Study on consumer preferences towards vegetables

Necula, Diana Maria; Bădan, Daniela Nicoleta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 135-141). 2020

Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition, as they have a high content of nutrients. In the last five years, there has been a tendency to increase the consumption of vegetables among Romanians, this being attributed to the increase of the living standard, but also to the reorientation...

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The Determinants of Coupon Discounts for Breakfast Cereals

Price, Gregory - 2008

discount levels. The empirical model is fitted with data on household purchases of ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereals and … discounts redeemed for rival cereals. Coupon values fall with increasing brand loyalty among RTE cereal purchasers. Cereal …

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Volatility Spillover Effects in Greek Consumer Meat Prices

Rezitis, Anthony N. - 2008

This paper investigates volatiltiy spillover effects, i.e. 'meteor showers' and 'heat waves', across consumer meat prices for lamb, beef, pork, and poltry. The empirical analysis used the methodology of the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic (GARCH) approach. The empirical...

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