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This research is aimed at investigating the consumer’s preference for food produced in Taiwan and the economic benefits for the country of origin labeling. The study uses both experimental auction and contingent valuation method (CVM) to investigate factors that affect the consumer’s...
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health risk. It is also found that consumers do not perceive that organic products have higher prices than conventional …
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In recent years an increasing consumer preference for regional food can be observed, both in Germany and in other European countries. Regression models investigating this region-of-origin effect are rare and in most cases the region or sample size under consideration is quite small. Different...
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This 2011 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
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Food markets are increasingly characterized by an array of quality assurances with respect to credence attributes, many of which relate to agricultural production methods. A variety of organizations are associated with these quality assurance claims, including private, third party and public...
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In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment … introduce the food environment effect by showing how the food environment can affect food consumption decisions and how this can … skew the resulting food consumption vector. Finally, we analyse manipulations of the food environment as a potential form …
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Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products is somewhat more restrictive than in … informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes. The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In …
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increasingly popular in the valuation of health and health care. Whatever the context, CV surveys risk eliciting "protest … health. The results of the search found there is consensus that zero valuations due to concerns about taxation and/or trust … protest bids within health economics. We have identified a number of lessons of best practice for the future designs of CV …
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increasingly popular in the valuation of health and health care. Whatever the context, CV surveys risk eliciting "protest … health. The results of the search found there is consensus that zero valuations due to concerns about taxation and/or trust … protest bids within health economics. We have identified a number of lessons of best practice for the future designs of CV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014106
This major reference work--the first of its kind--provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the large and growing literature on contingent valuation. It includes entries on over 7,500 contingent valuation papers and studies from over 130 countries covering both the published and...
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