The objective of the study is to estimate demand for wine in Australia, based on both the systems approach and the single equation approach. Both approaches consider demand for three categories of alcoholic drinks (beer, wine and spirits) in a seemingly unrelated regression framework to take...

Product assessment for imperceptiblecharacteristics like environmental impact, healthfulness,naturalness, and fairness is a helpful tool in productinnovation and for enhancing socially responsibleconduct.In this study we apply multiple criteria analysis forthe assessment of fresh tomatoes in...

Currently, Brazil is the greatest worldwide producer and exporter of sugar. Therefore, it is expected better defined forms to restrict high costs, which are normally present in many of the factors involved in the process of production and product commercialization. Under that context, this study...

The purpose of this paper is to study the price behaviour of fresh produce at the retaillevel of two leading supermarkets, Tesco and Sainsbury, with the purpose of gainingknowledge about their interaction. We focus the study on six products from the freshfruits and vegetable group (i.e.,...

The aim of this study is to contribute to the explanation of consumer behaviour.To do so, it is not sufficient to identify the product characteristics most relevant tothe consumer. Moreover, the reasons why consumers attach meaning to the productattributes have to be found out, whereas the...

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We develop a semi-structural price vector autoregression to capture coffee price dynamics over various time horizons. The presence of the International Coffee Agreement is permitted to alter supply responses to price signals through yield and planting effects. In the short run, the ICA caused...

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