Organic foods and local foods have come to the forefront of consumer issues, due to concerns about nutrition, health, sustainability, and food safety. A conjoint analysis experiment quantified the relative importance of, and trade-offs between, apple search and experience attributes...

Since EU accession the Hungarian dairy industry’s domestic market has generally expanded as turnover and consumption have both grown, but this has been increasingly due to cheap imports, while the purchase and sale of domestic products has been decreasing or stagnating (both in the...

A téma kutatása olyan szakterület részét jelenti, amely Magyarországon még nagyon szűk szegmenst alkot. A szerzők kvalitatív és kvantitatív módszereket alkalmaztak, melyek során egy országos, 1000 fős reprezentatív kérdőíves felmérést, valamint azok...

The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments required that water utilities send quality reports to customers. We test whether receiving such reports of health violations increases purchases of bottled water using newly released data and disaggregate changes in demand at the intensive and...

“Buying local†has become one of the most important trends in food marketing. Despite widespread public attention, the influence of the “local†attribute on food prices is not well understood. We aim to begin to fill this gap in research by exploring the presence of a price...

A sample selection system is used to examine factors associated with likelihoods of purchase and amounts spent on fresh, frozen, and processed meats in Malaysia based on data from the 2009/10 Malaysian Household Expenditure Survey. Statistical tests support use of the sample selection system...

The objective of this study is to estimate Korean consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for beef products with BSE testing and country of origin labeling. We use a choice experiment to examine consumers’ valuation for beef products with these labels. In addition to analysis using the pooled...

Expenditures on food away from home by food-secure and food-insecure households are compared. The analysis, based on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), finds that female labor force participation, household income, Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation, education, and other...

In the past few decades, the market for organic food has developed well in Western European countries and comparable markets like the United States or Canada. While these markets are now approaching market saturation, other markets still have huge potential for growth and are therefore of...