The Effects of Relative Price and Health Information on Derived Demand for Sweeteners in the U.S. Food Processing Industry

The purpose of the study is to examine the differential effects of relative prices and diet-health link information on the degree of substitution between corn and cane sugar in the U.S. food processing sector. Our results suggest that the nature of the relationship between cane and corn sugar is complementary and time-varying; and the elasticity of substitution is more responsive to changes in relative prices than to changes in health information.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Hailu, Getu ; Thangaraj, Rawlin ; Cranfield, John A.L.
Institutions:	Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology (REES), University of Alberta
Subject:	Derived Demand \| Sweeteners \| Relative Prices \| Health Information \| Trade offs \| Demand and Price Analysis \| Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Consumer and Market Demand Network Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Department of Rural Economy>Consumer and Market Demand Network Papers Number 6835
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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