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Investigating Thai Shopping Behavior: Wet-Markets, Supermarkets and the ‘Big Middle’
Gorton, Matthew; Sauer, Johannes; Supatpongkul, Pajaree - 2009
Drawing on the Big Middle theory of retail evolution, an analysis of primary survey data on Thai shopping behavior seeks to understand the relative satisfaction of consumers with wet markets and supermarkets, identifying the factors that affect frequency of visit to, and purchase behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444781
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Investigating Thai Shopping Behaviour: Wet-Markets, Supermarkets and Food Quality
Gorton, Matthew; Sauer, Johannes; Supatpongkul, Pajaree - 2009
An analysis of primary survey data on Thai shopping behavior seeks to understand therelative satisfaction of consumers with wet markets and supermarkets and identify the factorsthat affect frequency of visit to, and purchase behavior within, these retail outlets. This is usedas a basis for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444807
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Certification Logos in the Market for Organic Food: What are Consumers Willing to Pay for Different Logos?
Janssen, Meike; Hamm, Ulrich - 2011
Organic food is often labelled with an organic certification logo to gain consumer trust in theproduct integrity. The number of different organic certification logos in the European marketraises the question whether consumers prefer specific logos over others. The aim of this paperis to analyse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442629
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Clustering of groups of regular customers in horticultural retail stores in Austria
Gabriel, Andreas; Menrad, Klaus - 2008
Paper prepared for presentation at the First Symposium on Horticulture in Europe(SHE), 17th to 20th February 2008 at Vienna/Austria held under the aegis of ALVA,APH, BNL-SHS, DGG, GSHS, IOH, INRA, NJF, PSHS, SECH, SOI and theInternational Society for Horticultural Science
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442634
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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones
Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010
Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442742
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Auctioning Conservation Contracts and Evaluating the Risk Attitudes of Farmers: Economic Experiments in Japan
Sasaki, Hiroki; Fujie, Takeshi; Kawasaki, Kentaro; … - 2010
Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442746
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Testing for Consistency in Tourists' Willingness to Pay for New Nature Reserves in the Gulf of Morbihan (France)
Voltaire, Louinord; Nassiri, Abdelhak; Bailly, Denis; … - 2011
In this paper, we develop an empirical test of consistency in contingent willingness topay (WTP) responses, which is based on the following a priori expectation. In economics,when an individual considers paying for public goods, his decision to pay, and his WTP arebased on utility-maximising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442761
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ASYMMETRY IN RAW MILK SAFETY PERCEPTIONS AND INFORMATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK IN FRESH PRODUCE MARKETING AND POLICY
Knutson, Ronald D.; Currier, Russell W.; Ribera, Luis; … - 2010
Scientific evidence clearly indicates that consumption of raw milk carries substantialdisease-inducing health risks. While federal U.S. policy mandates that milk moving in interstatecommerce be pasteurized; within 41 of 50 states, raw milk can be obtained for consumption.Warning labels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442762
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Nutritional & Health Claimed Products Market Development in Serbia: Exploration of Findings Obtained from In Depth Interviews
Stojanovic, Zaklina; Ognjanov, Galjina; … - 2010
The main objective of this paper is to present the most relevant findings obtained from in depthinterviews with processors and retailers about the N&H claimed products market in Serbia. Inour research we addressed the following set of topics: motivations and barriers to offer N&Hclaimed products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442763
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Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Lee, Jonq-Ying - 2010
20-percent milk price subsidy would have on the diet and health ofAmerican children. We estimated US beverage demand … children, lowering the obesity rate from 16.1 percent to 13.4 percentand the overweight rate from 32 percent to 26.9 percent …. When a 20-percent price subsidy formilk is bundled with the SSB tax, children would on average decrease their calorie …
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