Against the background of diverse food scandals this article investigates the role of trust as a determinant of … consumer behaviour in Germany. As empirical analyses indicate the impact of trust on consumer behaviour in a quotidian and … presumably safe setting is to be neglected. In the environment of a food scandal, however, trust proves to be a crucial element …

Based on an enhancement of Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behaviour, this article investigates German consumers' trust in … different sources of information. Moreover, it discusses the settings and the extent to which consumers' trust influences … incidence such as bird flu . Results indicate that both the consumers' attitude and their trust in suppliers of information is a …

-order ambiguity, or uncertainty over probabilities, affects food safety decisions. We conduct a food safety survey wherein subjects …

The existing literature on dynamic efficiency is deterministic and ignores uncertainty when deriving dynamic efficiency … measures, even though it is known that uncertainty affects the optimal adjustment path and the optimal use of quasi … optimal investment under uncertainty jointly into consideration. We apply this model to German farm-level panel data to …

Investment decisions are, as a rule, characterized by uncertainty, irreversibility and flexibility. Simple net present … model affirm the importance of uncertainty and flexibility for investment decisions. They also show that the actual …