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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
MODELING THE IMPACT OF FOOD SAFETY INFORMATION ON MEAT DEMAND IN SPAIN
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| Autores: |
Radwan, Amr
Gil, Jose Maria
Ben Kaabia, Monia
Serra, Teresa
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| Data: |
2008-04-26
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Meat consumption
Food safety information
BSE
Demand systems
GAIDS
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries
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| Resumo: |
This paper analyses the impact of food safety information about the 'mad-cow' crisis on the demand for different types of fresh meat and fish in Spain. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates food safety information in the consumers' utility function, from which demand equations are obtained. Two alternative functional forms have been considered, the standard AIDS and the Generalized Almost ideal Demand System (GAIDS) in order to overcome the problem of incorporating demand shifters in the traditional AIDS model. The food safety information has been incorporated into the demand function through a weighted information index built on the basis of the published news related to the mad-cow disease in the most popular Spanish newspaper. The comparison of elasticities from both models suggests that GAIDS elasticities are more consistent with the characteristics of meat and fish markets in Spain. Moreover, mass media information on BSE has had a statistically significant but small effect on the consumption of the different meat products in Spain.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
29425
http://purl.umn.edu/6672
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| Relação: |
European Association of Agricultural Economists>107th Seminar, January 30-February 1, 2008, Sevilla, Spain
Contributed Paper
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| Formato: |
19
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