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Analysis of Retailer Pricing in the Presence of Coupons: An Examination of Breakfast Cereal Industry

Zheng, Hualu; Berning, Joshua - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

compete for market share, they draw considerable in the food marketing and industrial organization literature. The objective …

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Calorie labeling and fast food choices in surveys and actual markets: some new behavioral results

Loureiro, Maria L.; Rahmani, Djamal - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

the restaurant context. Among the possible menus, the salad menu (the healthiest menu) was the most preferred option by … those respondents who received nutritional information in the survey context; whereas in the restaurant, the most popular … restaurant. These results show large discrepancies between stated preferences and actual market behavior. These findings may be …

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Aflatoxin Contamination of Maize in Kenya: Observability and Mitigation Behavior

Hoffmann, Vivian; Mutiga, Samuel; Harvey, Jagger; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Using a unique dataset of maize samples and consumer interviews form Eastern Kenya, we find that the presence of the fungal contaminant aflatoxin is negatively associated with the use of maize flour for food. While food remains the most common use of maize regardless of the presence of the...

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Energy and Food Commodity Prices Linkage: An Examination with Mixed-Frequency Data

Trujillo-Barrera, Andres; Pennings, Joost M.E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Is the relationship between energy and agricultural commodities an important factor in the increasing price variability of food commodities? Findings from the literature appear to be mixed and highly influenced by the data frequency used in those analysis. A recurrent task in time series applied...

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Estimating the Censored Demand for U.S. Cheese Varieties Using Panel Data: Impact of Economic and Demographic Factors

Bouhlal, Yasser; Capps, Oral Jr.; Ishdorj, Ariun - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

The United States cheese consumption has grown considerably over the years. Using Nielsen Homescan panel data for calendar years 2005 and 2006, this paper examines the effect of economic and socio-demographic factors on the demand for disaggregated cheese varieties. In this study, we estimated...

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Consumer Willingness to Pay for Locally Grown Produce Designed to Support Local Food Banks and Enhance Locally Grown Producer Markets

Willis, David B.; Carpio, Carlos E.; Boys, Kathryn A.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

This study investigates the possibility of using local food banks as a distributor in the local food supply chain. The … products, if consumers have knowledge that a portion of the purchase price will be used as a donation to support local food ….15 per pound premium for locally grown produce and $0.43 per pound premium for local animal products. When it was noted that …

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Lessons from the California GM Labeling Proposition on the State of Crop Biotechnology

Zilberman, David; Kaplan, Scott; Kim, Eunice; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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Growing their own: Unobservable quality and the value of self-provisioning

Hoffmann, Vivian; Gatobu, Ken - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Many important food quality and safety attributes are unobservable at the point of sale, particularly in informal markets with weak reputation effects. Through a framed field experiment conducted in western Kenya, we show that farmers place a large premium on maize they have grown themselves,...

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The impact of violent political conflict on commodity prices: The Israeli food market

Rubin, Ofir D.; Ihle, Rico; Kachel, Yael; Goodwin, Barry K. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

The impact of violent conflict on the state of the economy has been studied extensively since the two recent decades. In most studies the state of the economy is operationalized by stock market indices of the respective countries. In this paper we suggest investigating the impact of violent...

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High Food Prices and their Implications for Poverty in Uganda From Demand System Estimation to Simulation

Boysen, Ole - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

This paper represents an initial attempt at assessing the importance of estimated demand systems for the simulation of large price shocks with respect to poverty analysis. Using a Ugandan household survey data set and an estimated flexible demand system, three different approaches to simulating...

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