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Firms' strategies and voluntary traceability: an empirical analysis in Italian food chains

Stranieri, Stefanella; Banterle, Alessandro - 2006

In international food markets, voluntary traceability systems have increasedtheir role in guaranteeing high safety and … andstrengthen competitive advantage in both the national and international market.Voluntary traceability has significant … analysesthe effects of voluntary traceability on vertical co- ordination using a transaction costperspective. The analysis makes …

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RETAIL SALES: DO THEY MEAN REDUCED EXPENDITURES? GERMAN GROCERY EVIDENCE

Loy, Jens-Peter; Weaver, Robert D. - 2003

Retail pricing strategies incorporate promotions, sales, and rigidities. A number of models have been proposed in particular to explain the occurrence of sales. Focussing on the market for fresh foods the model by Varian and the loss leader argument seem to be intuitively best fitting to the...

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WHO Dietary Norms: A Quantitative Evaluation of Potential Consumption Impacts in the United States

Srinivasan, C.S. - 2006

The member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently endorsed its Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in an effort to combat the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. We assess the potential consumption impacts of these norms in the United States...

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Impact of Changes in Dietary Preferences on U.S. Retail Demand for Beef: Health Concerns and the Role of Media

Miljkovic, Dragan; Mostad, Daniel - 2005

The goal of this study is twofold: to determine if in the long run health concerns affect, via changes in consumer dietary preferences, the retail demand for beef in the United States and to establish if media coverage of popular diets (media frenzy) causes the change in retail demand for beef,...

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BALANCING FOOD SAFETY AND RISK: DO DRUG RESIDUE LIMITS AFFECT INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN BEEF?

Wilson, John S.; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Majumdar, Baishali - 2003

There have been a number of high profile food safety disputes in trade over the past decade. These include the widely publicized dispute at the World Trade Organization between the U.S. and EU over hormone treated beef. Consumers in some industrialized countries have also expressed concern over...

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CHANGES IN INCOME AND WELFARE DISTRIBUTION IN URBAN CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD CONSUMPTION AND TRADE

Wang, Qingbin; Shi, Guanming; Zheng, Yi - 2000

While China's economic reform has brought about significant economic growth, there is a considerable debate about the impact of such market-oriented reform on income and welfare distributions. This paper examines the changes in income and welfare distributions in urban China from 1981 to 1998...

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INCOME ELASTICITY OF RICE DEMAND IN JAPAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS

Taniguchi, Kiyoshi; Chern, Wen S. - 2000

Researchers believe that rice in developed countries such as Japan became an inferior good a few decades ago. This study employs the flexible complete demand system for the recent cross-sectional data in Japan. Our results clearly show that rice in Japan is a normal good contrary to the...

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THE IMPACT OF HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL DETERMINANTS OF CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION: CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE FROM WEST AFRICA

Penders, Christopher L.; Staatz, John - 2001

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different countries. The results are interpreted in the context of...

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TRACEABILITY AND IDENTITY PRESERVATION POLICY: PRIVATE INITIATIVES VS. PUBLIC INTERVENTION

Goldsmith, Peter D. - 2004

vertical information flow; in the form of segregation, traceability, or identity preservation, should be accomplished. This … question has recently come to the policy forefront through European labeling/traceability issues, the Canadian BSE incident … government systems (e.g. full traceability systems, animal passports, ISO 9000) would be misplaced and ineffective. They point to …

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The Impact of Experience and Consumer Perceptions on Perceived Risk Reduction Behavior - The Case of Beef

McCarthy, Mary - 2005

This research examines perceived risk at the facet level (Psychological, Social, Performance, Safety, Health and Financial) and assesses the influence of consumer experience and perception of self (perceived ability, interest in product and interest in cooking), product (perceived product...

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