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Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Biodegradable Containers Than for Plastic Ones? Evidence from Hypothetical Conjoint Analysis and Nonhypothetical Experimental Auctions
Yue, Chengyan; Hall, Charles R.; Behe, Bridget K.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 04
This study used and compared hypothetical conjoint analysis and nonhypothetical experimental auctions to elicit floral customers’ willingness to pay for biodegradable plant containers. The results of the study show that participants were willing to pay a price premium for biodegradable...
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Efficient Documentation and Webmarketing Strategies for DNAs
Gupta, Naman; Michaelowa, Axel - 2005
their Designated National Authority (DNA). Capacity building and marketing the national CDM programmes to buyers of …
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Eco-Labels for Credence Attributes: The Case of Shade-Grown Coffee
Larson, Bruce A. - 2002
Using the case of shade-grown coffee, this paper examines the market impacts of ‘eco-labels’ for credence attributes. First, the Mattoo and Singh (1994) test is conducted for the case of shade-grown coffee to investigate the market impacts of a shade label. This analysis in Section II shows...
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COMPETENCE ACQUISITION IN RETAIL FOOD: EFFICIENT CONSUMER RESPONSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Marcus, Alfred; Spielmann, Brian; Qu, Lu - 1997
Based on interviews with retail food store managers and a subsequent survey, this paper traces the pathways that spawn competence acquisition in the retail food industry. It finds that having an essential capability for learning, that is, obtaining new ideas, concepts, methods, tends to breed...
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Inventory Dissipation in the Japanese Wholesale Salmon Market
Roheim Wessells, Cathy A.; Wilen, James E. - 1993
Many fisheries are characterized by a brief and concentrated harvest period followed by a longer marketing period … wholesalemarket over the marketing period in a way that maximizes expected net returns.The model is applied to the Japanese wholesale … prices, the opportunity cost of holding stocks, the length of time left in the marketing horizon and the level ofcurrent …
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Experimental Testbeds for ECOSEL: A Market Framework for Private Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services
Toth, Sandor F.; Rabotyagov, Sergey S.; Ettl, Gregory J. - 2009
We attempt to design a market framework (which we call ECOSEL) for private provision offorest ecosystem services. ECOSEL is a non-regulatory framework that uses a voluntarypublic good provision mechanism (in a form of an auction) in conjunction with a multiobjectiveoptimization algorithm to...
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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008
Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...
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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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Smallholder marketed surplus and input use under transactions costs: maize supply and fertilizer demand in Kenya
Arega, D.A.; Manyong, Victor M.; Omanya, G.; Mignouna, H.D. - 2008
significant negative effects on market participation, cost-mitigating innovations—such as group marketing—are also emerging to …
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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure
Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008
Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
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