Food safety crises usually receive widespread publicity and an extensive media coverage which evidently is mainly negative. Based on previous research, the purpose of this article is to illustrate the impact of positive and negative food safety information on demand both in the short and long...

Recent food scares in the food market has caused a reduction in consumer's confidence in the food system that it has induced a significant reduction in consumption in a sector, the beef sector that was already characterized by a saturated trend in quantity terms. In this context, all...

Relevant Component Analysis has been introduced recently as a way to incorporate a priori information, such as class or preference information, that may exist for a given data set. The method uses this information to define a new Mahalanobis distance metric on the data space. The purpose of the...

Complex models have been traditionally and increasingly used by both marketing academics and practitioners to represent and understand consumer behaviour. Thus, we firstly pose that models of consumer behaviour firms use to make in which firms are based to take their decisions must be close to...

A quality differentiation strategy for agrifood products based on geographical origin and production method has become a viable alternative for certain firms in the internationalized food markets, if it could be considered as a rural development instrument. This method of adding value to their...

Resumen El objetivo del trabajo se centra en analizar el efecto de la presencia de etiqueta en un producto con el fin de minimizar el riesgo percibido o la incertidumbre asociada al producto. El análisis ha sido realizado tomando como ejemplo la carne fresca de ternera, producto que ha...

El trabajo ha cubierto un doble objetivo, por un lado se ha determinado la importancia relativa de los atributos del vino que influyen en la conformación de las preferencias de los consumidores de Castilla-La Mancha, y por otro se ha analizado la actitud de los consumidores hacia los vinos con...

This paper analyses the changing competence requirements which members of the food chain face in their pursuit of competitive advantage. Two groups of trends serve as point of departure: more dynamic and heterogeneous consumer demands, which can be analysed in terms of consumer demands for...

The aim of this work is to determine and analyse consumer preferences regarding the profiles of an e-retailer's web page. Two types of products are examined, a pleasure trip and a laptop computer, to test whether there are differences in the individuals' preferences. There are two reasons for...

The rates of value added tax (VAT) have recently changed in the Czech Republic, and I simulate the impact of these reforms. They are an example of changes in indirect taxes that change the prices of goods and services, to which households can respond by adjusting their expenditures. I first...