In this paper, the authors use the concept of the population Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve to build analytic models of ROC curves. Information about the population properties can be used to gain greater accuracy of estimation relative to the non-parametric methods currently in...

With the concern for the market of food safety, abundant researches on consumer's WTP for organic food have been carried out. With meta-analysis, this paper aims to confirm whether diverge estimates from various researches are relaible and to explore the sources of heterogenicity in terms of...

This study argued that food standards are endogenous and determined by the contest or balance among five relevant interest groups: industry, government, consumers (civil society), academia, and external influence. After a comprehensive review on the Maximum Residue Limit regulation system around...