Bread contains a wide range of importantnutritional components which provide a positive effect on human health. However, the consumption of bread in Belgium is declining during the last decades. This is due to factors such as changing eating patterns and a increasing choice of substitutes like...

In a global economy food origin is gainingincreasing attention as determining purchase criterionin food consumption. Consequently, for many consumersa product’s country-of-origin (COO) is an importantcue in evaluating both domestic and foreign products.A double-bounded dichotomous choice...

The development in the consumption of fruit andvegetables in the period 1999-2004 in Denmark wasinvestigated using quantile regression and two previouslyoverlooked problems were identified. First, the change in theten percent quantile samples decreased. This could have beencaused by changes in...

The World Health Organization has stated that obesity is spreading around the world like a “global epidemic”. In 2004 the percentage of obese people in the Italian population was 9%, but the trend s increasing in recent years. Focusing on this country, the purpose of the paper is to analyze...

A quantity-dependent hedonic model is used tostudy consumers’ actual purchases of cured ham, recordedthrough scanner in Spain, between April 2003 and March2004. A Zero Inflated Negative Binomial (ZIB) model isapplied because of the high proportion of zero purchase-valuesand the finding of...

The study explores a long memory conditional volatility model on international grain markets, demonstrating importance of modeling both temporal effects of volatility and long memory process. This study adopts six different volatility models, nested in an ARMA(p,q)- FIGARCH(P,D,Q), to capture...

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

An increasing number of studies deals with consumer decisions regarding organic food, but only a few provide quantitative estimates of price and income elasticities. This paper contributes to the existing literature by providing own-price elasticity estimates as well as an analysis of the...

Using Nielsen Homescan data set from 52 markets in the United States, this paper assesses the price interactions among the four fluid milk categories (organic private label, organic national brand, non-organic private label and non-organic national brand), how demographic variables and product...

This paper examines the health effects of a fiscal food policy based on a combinationof fat taxes and thin subsidies. The fat tax is based on the saturated fat content of fooditems while the thin subsidy is applied to select fruit and vegetbale items. The policy is designed to be revenue neutral...