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Price Setting in Food SMEs: Which Role for Marketing Capability? An Empirical Analysis in Italy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Banterle,   Alessandro; Carraresi,   Laura; Cavaliere,   Alessia.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are fighting for survival due to globalization, growing competition with big retailers, and strategies adopted by large industrial companies. Difficulties in pricing are also revealed in the literature. Therefore, appropriate activity is needed to be more a price maker than a taker, and to reach a better market power. On the other hand, market opportunities for SMEs are related to demand evolution toward food quality and traditional food products. To profit by such opportunities, SMEs need to focus on consumer requirements, by differentiating their products. In this way, firms could apply a premium price that justifies the peculiar value of the product, and that the consumer should be willing to pay. Nonetheless,...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Traditional food products; Price setting; Marketing capability; Ordinal regression model; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; L25; L66; M31; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122000

The Relationship Between Strategic Choices and Performance in Italian Food SMEs: A Resource-based Approach
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Carraresi,   Laura; Mamaqi,   Xhevrie; Albisu,   Luis Miguel; Banterle,   Alessandro.
In the context of progressive rise of the competition among firms, due to the increasing globalisation, it is interesting to understand the potential sources of competitive advantage in order to set up a successful strategy. The theory of Resource-based View used in this framework examines the connection among internal resources and strategic choices, and how the latter affect firm performance. The firm strategy is determined by available resources and capabilities which are deployed to obtain a good performance. Therefore, strategic choices act in between resources and performance. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the relationship between strategic choices and performance achieved by food SMEs, based on a set of distinctive resources. This approach...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Resource-based view; Strategic choices; SMEs; Food sector; Structural equation modelL11; L25; L66; Q13; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114318

THE IMPACT OF REGULATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Menrad,   Klaus; Blind,   Knut.
Paper prepared for presentation at the 8th ICABR International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology: International Trade and Domestic Production Ravello (Italy), July 8 to 11th, 2004
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food industry; Regulation; Innovation; Biotechnology; Organic food; Functional Food; European Union; United States; Industrial Organization; L5; L66; O32.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91013

Beef Labeling After BSE: Do Consumers Care about BSE Testing and GMO Labeling? Evidence from Canada and the US
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Steiner,   Bodo E.; Yang,   Jun.
Following the May 2003 Canadian BSE case, food safety issues have become even more prominent to policymakers and consumers. In both Canada and the US, governments and industry have responded with a variety of quality assurance, traceability and labeling schemes. However, there is little information available on the extent to which consumer perceptions differ regionally across North America towards labeling schemes. This paper attempts to fill this gap, by providing results on a variety of beef labeling strategies from choice experiments that were conducted in Alberta (Canada) and Montana (US). The analysis focuses on consumers' perceptions towards negative voluntary labeling with regard to BSE testing, genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the use of...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Choice experiments; Multinomial logit; Beef labeling; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; L66; C35.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6836

Determinants of Meats Purchase Behavior by Ethnic Groups
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Garcia-Jimenez,   Carlos I.; Mishra,   Ashok K.
Farmers and food companies need to assess their production and marketing strategies for nurturing business opportunities that will arise from the simultaneous increase in population and income of Hispanics in the United States. Previous studies on demand for meat products have not received much attention on the determinants of meats purchase behavior by Hispanics in relation to other ethnic groups. This study investigates the impact of ethnicity and the determinants of meats purchase behavior in the U.S. by using single Probit equations. The analyzed data comes from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. The results indicate that ethnicity plays an important role in the purchase behavior of meat products, as well as household size and income.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Consumer behavior; Marketing; Food demand; Hispanic food; Hispanic food market; Latin foods; Comida latina; Alimentos; Ethnic foods; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization; Marketing; D01; D03; D12; L14; L66; M31; M37.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61073

Measuring market power in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rezitis,   Anthony N.; Kalantzi,   Maria A.
This paper measures the degree of market power of the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry over the period 1983–2007 at the three-digit SIC level. The present study also estimates the “deadweight” loss and the reduction of consumers’ income due to the possible existence of market power in the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry. Based on Bresnahan’s (1989) conjectural variation model, three different approaches are used to investigate competitive conditions of the Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry. The first approach assesses the extent of market power of the whole industry over the period 1983–2007; the second approach tests the degree of market power in each one of the nine sectors of the industry over the whole...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Conjectural variation; Greek food and beverages manufacturing industry; Market power; Welfare losses; Agribusiness; D43; D60; L66; Q10.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114809

Is There a Link between the Changing Skills of Labor Used in U.S. Processed Food Trade and Rural Employment?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schluter,   Gerald E.; Lee,   Chinkook.
Between the 1970s and the 1990s, processed food exports switched from using more skilled labor per unit of output than imports to the opposite.  Processed food trade also expanded during this period.  More meat and poultry products in processed food trade could explain this switch in skill intensity.  Growing meat trade paralleled an urban-to-rural shift in meat processing.  Although this could have been a win-win situation for rural areas, many of the jobs related to expanded meat trade benefited commuter and migrant workers because late-1990s jobs slaughtering livestock and processing meat did not appeal to domestic rural workers.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Consolidation in the meat industry; Factor content of trade; Input-output analysis; International meat trade; Processed food trade; Rural development; Rural labor demand; Skill intensity; C67; D24; F14; F16; J61; L66; O18; Q17; R15.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43465

OPTIMAL GENERIC ADVERTISING IN AN IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE FOOD INDUSTRY WITH VARIABLE PROPORTIONS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kinnucan,   Henry W.
This paper determines the impact of food industry market power on farmers' incentive to promote in a situation where funds for promotion are raised through a per-unit assessment on farm output and food industry technology is characterized by variable proportions.  Specifically, building on earlier studies by Azzam and by Holloway, Muth's model is extended to consider the farm-level impacts of generic advertising when downstream firms possess oligopoly and/or oligopsony power and advertising expenditure is endogenous at the market level.  Applying the model to the U.S. beef industry, we find that for plausible parameter values market power reduces farmers' incentive to promote.  However, the disincentive is moderated by  factor substitution, and effectively...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Dorfman-Steiner theorem; Generic advertising; Oligopoly power; Oligopsony power; Marketing; L66; Q13; Q17.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19775

Imperfect competition in the fresh tomato industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hadj Djelloul,   Mohammed; Requillart,   Vincent; Simioni,   Michel.
In this paper, we analyse the market power of the retail industry in the French tomato market. Following the methods developed in the New Empirical Industrial Organization, we develop a structural model of this industry. The analysis is based on detailed data on final consumption and prices at both shipper and consumer levels for two types of tomatoes in France. The structural model is composed of a system of demand equation and supply equation. Supply equation includes a term that represents the market power of the retail sector. We use different models of demand in order to test the robustness of our results. We show that i) elasticity of demand varies during the year ii) the retail sector exercise only a "moderate" market power iii) the estimated...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Market power; Imperfect competition; Fresh products; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; L13; Q13; L66; L81.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6682

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU LEGISLATION CONCERNING GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS IN THE GERMAN FOOD AND FEED INDUSTRY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hirzinger,   Tobias; Menrad,   Klaus.
Paper prepared for presentation at the 10th ICABR International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology: Facts, Analysis and Policies Ravello (Italy), June 29th to July 2nd, 2006
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Traceability; Genetic modified organism; Co-Existence; EU Legislation; Germany; Feed industry; Food industry; Regulations (EC) No 1829/2003 and 1830/2003; Industrial Organization; L51; L66.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91132

The competitiveness situation of the EU meat processing and beverage manufacturing sectors
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fischer,   Christian; Schornberg,   Sebastian.
The status of competitiveness for the two most important food and beverage manufacturing sector s (meat processing and beverage manufacturing) in 13 EU countries is analysed empirically, using 1995 - 2002 Eurostat data. After a review of earlier agribusiness competitiveness studies an industial competitiveness index is proposed as a composite measure for multidimensional economic performance, covering profitability, productivity and output growth. The index approach enables relative competitiveness comparisons across industries, countries and over time. The results show that during 1999 - 2002 as compared to 1995 - 1998 for both sectors overall competitiveness in real terms slightly increased. At the same time, overall competitiveness seems to also have...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: European Union; Competitiveness; Meat processing; Beverage manufacturing; Index; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries; F23; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10028

Old World Wines Revisited: Consumers' Valuation of Spanish and German Wines in the UK Wine Market
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Steiner,   Bodo E.
The mid 1990s was a pivotal period for the UK retail wine market, as New World Wines started to expand significantly at the expense of Old World Wines. This paper reviews supply and demand-side characteristics of the UK wine market during this period, and the underlying wine labeling scheme, before assessing how wines from Old World wine producing countries were valued by consumers in the British wine market. Following a more detailed discussion of econometric estimation issues, hedonic price analysis is applied in order to analyze consumers’ valuation of wine label attributes of Spanish and German wines sold in Britain in 1994.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Wine labels; UK wine market; Hedonic price models; Spain; Germany; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; Q13; L66; D01.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91405

Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alarcón,   Silverio.
Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification tests reject the instrument variables only for 1 out of 9 estimates. The remaining 8 industries show evidence of homogeneity and constant returns to scale. Only one industry exhibits complete separability of all pairs of factors and thus translog is preferred to Cobb-Douglas specification for 7 industries. Substitutability and complementarity between production factors in response to price changes are studied through Morishima and Shadow elasticities....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Translog; Elasticity of substitution; Generalized method of moments; Returns to scale; Agribusiness; C23; D24; L66.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24487

A Comparative Analysis of US and Canadian Consumers' Perceptions Towards BSE Testing and the use of GM Organisms in Beef Production: Evidence from a Choice Experiment
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Steiner,   Bodo E.; Yang,   Jun.
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/24/07.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Choice experiments; Multinomial logit; Beef labeling; Livestock Production/Industries; D12; L66; C35.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9977

DER SLOWAKISCHE MARKT FÜR MILCH UND MILCHPRODUKTE – VOM BEGINN DER TRANSFORMATION BIS ZUM EU-BEITRITT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Glitsch,   Kristina; Eerits,   Alena.
Like in other CEEC, transition in the beginning of the 1990s had significant consequences for the agricultural and food sectors in Slovakia. For example, Slovakian consumers reacted to the abolition of consumer subsidies by drastically reducing their consumption of milk and milk products. Concurrently, milk production declined and now stands at fifty percent of its 1989 level. Dairies were closed down while those remaining carried on producing under constantly increasing overcapacities. In the years prior to EU accession, activities in the milk sector were primarily aimed at the adoption of EU standards. Meanwhile, the Slovakian milk processing industry is predominantly in the possession of foreign investors. Present per capita consumption of milk and milk...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Slovakia; Dairy industry; Milk consumption; Milk production; Milk processing; Structural change; Slowakei; Milchbranche; Milchkonsum; Milcherzeugung; Milchverarbeitung; Strukturwandel.; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; Industrial Organization; International Development; Marketing; L11; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92026

Food Protection for Sale
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lopez,   Rigoberto A.; Matschke,   Xenia.
This article tests the Protection for Sale (PFS) model using detailed data from U.S. food processing industries from 1978 to 1992 under alternative import demand specifications. All empirical results support the PFS model predictions and previous empirical work qualitatively. Although welfare weights are very sensitive to import demand specification, a surprising result is that we obtain weights between 2.6 and 3.6 for domestic welfare using import slopes or elasticities derived from domestic demand and supply functions. In contrast, results based on import slopes or elasticities from directly specified import demands (including the Armington model) yield the usual, unrealistically large estimates for the domestic welfare weight. We contend that the latter...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Trade protection; Tariffs; Lobbying; Political economy; Food manufacturing; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy; F13; F1; L66; C12.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25195

Trade, Food Standards and Poverty: The Case of High-Value Vegetable Exports from Senegal
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Maertens,   Miet.
Agricultural supply chains are changing globally with pervasive food standards and increased vertical coordination. The impact of these changes for developing countries and for small farmers in those countries is not yet well understood. We analyze the developments in high-standards FFV supply chains and the effects for small farmers and rural households in Senegal. We use a unique dataset derived from company level interviews and household surveys in the main horticulture zone in Senegal. Supply chain restructuring resulted in a shift from contract-farming with small-scale producers to large-scale vertically integrated estate-farming. A comprehensive econometric analysis shows that the restructuring of the value chain has enhanced an equitable...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade; D1; L66; O13; Q12; Q17.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25614

The Retail Service, The Market Power, and the Vertical Relationships in Breakfast Cereals Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chidmi,   Benaissa; Lopez,   Rigoberto A.; Cotterill,   Ronald W.
This article extends the Berry, Levinsohn, Pakes (1995) model to include retail services by Boston supermarkets in an equilibrium model of breakfast cereals and then tests alternative vertical pricing games between manufacturers and supermarkets to ascertain who’s got the pricing power. Empirical results show that retail services play a significant role in market equilibrium. Consumers are willing to pay for additional retail services embedded in their cereal purchases, especially those with higher income and no kids. Markups and market shares increase with the level of retail services, although manufacturers dominate pricing decisions in the market channel for breakfast cereals. Significant downward biases in price elasticities and markup estimates result...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Vertical relationships; Discrete choice; Supermarkets; Market channel; Industrial Organization; Marketing; L11; L13; L66.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51770

La relación entre ventajas competitivas y resultados empresariales en la industria agroalimentaria aragonesa
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Mamaqi,   Xhevrie; Gonzalez,   Maria A.; Albisu,   Luis Miguel.
Este trabajo investiga la relación entre las ventajas competitivas y resultados empresariales en el marco de la industria agroalimentaria (IAA) en Aragón (España). Se propone un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales cuyas relaciones se construyen teniendo en cuenta la literatura existente sobre el tema tanto en su vertiente teórica como empírica. Sobre una muestra de 194 empresas agroalimentarias aragonesas y un total de 19 indicadores, seleccionados para inferir las ventajas competitivas empresariales, se ha utilizado la técnica de Partial Least Squares (PLS) para contrastar las relaciones estructurales. La importancia de las actividades de innovación, introducción de nuevos productos y relaciones con los proveedores sobresalen sobre otros tipos de...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Industria agroalimentaria (IAA); Aragón; Ventajas competitivas; Modelo de Ecuaciones Estructurales (MEE); Agricultural and Food Policy; C31; C51; L66; R10.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57288

SATISFACTION OF THE EMPLOYED IN FOOD BUSINESSES AND SUCCESS OF FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Grujic, Radoslav; Grujic, Slavica; Durasinovic, Pejo; Pavlovic, Pero.
Efficiency of food safety management system application, such as HACCP system, depends on personnel employed in a company (salary, social status, job stability, superiors’ relation toward workers and relationship among workers themselves, knowledge background, etc). Results presented in this paper are the results of surveys conducted in food businesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A special part of the research is related to employees’ social status and employees’ opinion of their status in a company.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: HACCP; Employees’ social status; Efficiency of HACCP system application.; Food Security and Poverty; Industrial Organization; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; J28; L23; L66; M11; UDC: 664.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92357

Health Claims Regulation and Welfare
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Huang,   Rui; Bonanno,   Alessandro.
Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006, 20 December 2006, requires functional foods manufacturers operating in Europe to provide evidence that the health claims reported on the packaging are truthful.  However, most applications reviewed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have been rejected, leaving food manufacturers with the option of either selling products deprived of their claims or discontinuing their production.  This paper analyzes changes in welfare (both producers’ and consumers’) that would occur if the implementation of Reg. (EC) No 1924/2006 resulted in a large-scale health-claim de-labeling of functional food products.  To that end, we use one year (2007) of monthly scanner data of sales of conventional and functional yogurt in the Italian...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Health claims regulation; EFSA; Welfare; Random coefficients; MPEC.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; Q18; L66; M38.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103809

Rigidity in Packer-Feedlot Relationships
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hunnicutt,   Lynn; Bailey,   DeeVon; Crook,   Michelle.
Concentration in beef packing has risen dramatically in the past 25 years.  We develop measures used to describe feedlot-packer relations: (1) a statistic based on the proportion of its sales a feedlot makes to a given packer, and (2) a measure of the switching behavior of feedlots.  The measures are calculated using a confidential data set from the USDA Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration.  Relationships are found to be both exclusive and stable.  Causes for this rigidity are then examined using regression analysis.  Transaction costs are shown to help explain why this market differs from a perfectly competitive one.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Beef packing; Market relationships; Transaction costs; Q13; L14; L66.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43453

The Transmission of Price Trends from Consumers to Producers and Tests of Market Power
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lkassbi,   Driss; West,   Gale E.; Clark,   J. Stephen.
This study examines the competitiveness of four Canadian agricultural industries (eggs, milk, chicken and turkey) using a general equilibrium farm to retail pricing model developed by Wohlgenant (1989). The model generates retail and farm pricing equations that are estimated using maximum likelihood developed by Johansen (1992). The results indicate that in all cases, long-run constant returns is rejected, indicating market power within the Canadian retail to farm marketing sector. The model also finds more cointegrating vectors than predicted by theory, also inconsistent with competitive markets. Results are based on commercial disappearance as a proxy for consumer demand and therefore confounding between uncompetitive markets and quality differences may...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Market power; Food processing; Cointegration; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D41; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45497

Healthy Competition in the Animal Health Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Buhr,   Brian L.; Holtkamp,   Derald; Sornsen,   Steve.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Pharmaceutical Industry; Five Forces; Animal Health; Veterinary; Competition; Economics; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries; Q13; Q18; L11; L22; L2; L66.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104213

Pricing Power by Supermarket Retailers: A Ghost in the Machine?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Pofahl,   Geoffrey M.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; L13; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94764

An Innovative Tool to Assess Marketing Capabilities of Traditional Producers within the European Food Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Banterle,   Alessandro; Carraresi,   Laura; Stranieri,   Stefanella.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the marketing management capabilities of SMEs producing traditional food products in EU throughout the development of a benchmarking tool. SMEs represent the greater part of European food firms and they find it very difficult to adapt to market changes, and to compete with big enterprises. In this context, marketing management plays a key role in good SMEs performances in the market. The benchmarking tool, utilised to assess marketing capabilities, is aimed at improving critical points in the marketing area of traditional food firms by following the example of the best ones. This method is developed in the innovative form of an interactive questionnaire published on the Web. At the moment the sample is composed by 60...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Marketing capabilities; Traditional food; Benchmarking; Cluster analysis; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization; L25; L66; M31; Q13.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49769

Firm-Level Competition in Price and Variety
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Patterson,   Paul M.
Consumer product manufacturers often compete in dynamic, multi-firm oligopolies using multiple strategic tools. While existing empirical models of strategic interaction typically consider only parts of the more general problem, this paper presents a more comprehensive alternative. Marketing decision are dynamically optimal, consistent with optimal consumer choice, and responsive to rival decisions. Using a single-market case study that consists of five years of four-weekly data on ready-to-eat cereal sales, prices, and new brand introductions, we test several hypotheses regarding the nature of strategic interaction among several rival manufacturers. We find that cereal manufacturers price and introduce new brands cooperatively in the same period, but...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Cereal; Differentiated products; Dynamics; Oligopoly; Product line rivalry; Strategic interaction; Demand and Price Analysis; D43; L13; L66; M31; Q13.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43788

Market Power and/or Efficiency: An Application to U.S. Food Processing
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lopez,   Rigoberto A.; Azzam,   Azzeddine M.; Liron-Espana,   Carmen.
This article separates oligopoly-power and cost-efficiency effects of changes in industrial concentration and assesses their impact on output prices in 32 food-processing industries. Empirical results indicate that although concentration induces cost efficiency in one-third of the industries, oligopoly-power effects either dominate cost efficiency or reinforce inefficiency, resulting in higher output prices in most industries. The article also provides fresh econometric estimates of oligopoly power and economies of size for the industries in question.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Industrial concentration; Economies of scale; Industrial organization; Oligopoly power; Food processing; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Productivity Analysis; L00; L11; L13; L66.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25160

DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY IN U.S. CONSUMER RESPONSIVENESS TO CARBONATED SOFT-DRINK MARKETING PRACTICES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rhodes,   Charles.
Using three years of Nielson Homescan and advertising data from 16 major metropolitan areas across the U.S. to construct a panel data set that follows weekly consumer purchasing behavior, this paper investigates the impact of marketing activities on a representative cross-section of U.S. consumers. Because many consumers do not participate in the market week-in and week-out, I apply Heckman’s econometric selection model to recover the impact of pricing, advertising, and promotion on a wide range of consumer segments. Reduced-form estimates of consumer responsiveness to these marketing activities reveal different effects across consumer segments, which have numerous implications for marketing policy.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Carbonated soft drink; Marketing-mix models; Demographic segmentation; Econometric selection models; Nielsen panel data; Food marketing policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; D12; L66; M38.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116419

Do Sales Matter? Evidence from UK Food Retailing
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lloyd,   Tim A.; Morgan,   C. Wyn; McCorriston,   Steve; Zgovu,   Evious.
This paper assesses the role of sales as a feature of price dynamics using scanner data. The study analyses a unique, high frequency panel of supermarket prices consisting of over 230,000 weekly price observations on around 500 products in 15 categories of food stocked by the UK’s seven largest retail chains. In all, 1,700 weekly time series are available at the barcode-specific level including branded and own-label products. The data allows the frequency, magnitude and duration of sales to be analysed in greater detail than has hitherto been possible with UK data. The main results are: (i) sales are a key feature of aggregate price variation with around 40 per cent of price variation being accounted for by sales once price differences for each UPC level...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Sales; Price variation; Retail; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; L16; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108774

A Methodological Framework to Design and Assess Food Traceability Systems
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bendaoud,   Mhamed; Lecomte,   Catherine; Yannou,   Bernard.
The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Traceability; Food tracing; Food safety; Performance system; Information system; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Risk and Uncertainty; L66; Q.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120861

The Impact of Social Capital on the Implicit Price Paid by the Italian Consumer for Fair Trade Coffee
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bosbach,   Moritz; Maietta,   Ornella Wanda.
Consumers in developed countries are increasingly interested in the consumption of food products incorporating ethical aspects, particularly fair trade products. These products are usually distributed in a network of World Shops and, more recently, in supermarkets and shopping centres. The fair trade product with the highest market share is coffee. This study aims to ascertain the implicit price paid by Italian consumers for the fair trade content of coffee and how this implicit price is influenced by the level of social capital of the territory where consumers live. The data utilised are scanner data, based on the purchase at supermarkets and shopping centres observed from 2005 to 2007, referred to a territorial unit that is the province. Since scanner...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Hedonic price; Coffee; Fair trade; Scanner data; Italian consumers; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; C50; D12; L66; Z13.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114371

The Impact of Integration Strategies on Food Business Firm Value
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Dorsey,   Sarah; Boland,   Michael A.
The objective of this study is to analyze whether a discount or premium exists for coordination strategies in food processing, wholesale grocery, retail supermarkets, and restaurants. Significant premiums are found for food processor and restaurant vertical integration or diversification strategies. Significant discounts are found for food wholesaler and retail supermarket integration or diversification strategies. Food processors are found to be integrating toward retail supermarkets during this time period.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Food; Institutional economics; Integration; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Q13; L66; L14.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56642

EFFECTS OF THE REGULATION (EC) No 1829/2003 and 1830/2003 ON THE FOOD INDUSTRY IN GERMANY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hirzinger,   Tobias; Menrad,   Klaus.
Paper prepared for presentation at the Second International Conference on Coexistence between Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM based Agricultural Supply Chains (GMCC) Montpellier (France), 14th and 15th November 2005
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Genetic engineering; Food industry; Germany; Industrial Organization; L51; L66.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91120

Television Advertising and Soda Demand
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lopez,   Rigoberto A.; Liu,   Yizao; Zhu,   Chen.
This study examines the effects of television advertising on consumer demand for carbonated soft drinks using a random coefficients logit model (BLP) with household and advertising data from seven U.S. cities over a three year period. We find that advertising decreases the price elasticity of demand, indicating that advertising plays predominantly a persuasive, therefore anti-competitive role in this market. Further results show that brand spillover effects are significant and that measuring advertising with gross rating points (GRPs) outperforms measuring it with expenditures, as is conventionally done. Finally, simulation results indicate that eliminating all television advertising would lower market shares of sodas as consumers migrate to other...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Advertising; Demand; Competition; Consumer behavior; Sodas; Carbonated soft drinks; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; D12; L66; Q18; I18.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124445

Testing for Oligopoly Power in the Kenyan Seed Maize Processing Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nzuma,   Jonathan M.
In the recent past, the concentration of seed maize processing and marketing in Kenya has raised serious public concerns. The inability of this industry to ensure affordable prices of certified seed maize for the farming community has led policy makers to question its market behaviour. In spite of these concerns, the performance of agricultural markets in Kenya has received little attention. This study evaluates the market conduct of the industry using the New Empirical Institutional Organization framework and tests the hypothesis of price taking behaviour. A system of five equations was used to estimate conjectural variations elasticity while a Lerner index was constructed to measure market power using data from Kenya's Central Bureau of Statistics. The...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Seed Maize; Market power; Lerner index; Oligopoly; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization; D4; L66.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25591

Changing Factor Income Shares in Agri-Food Industries
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Konduru,   Srinivasa; Bjornson,   Bruce.
A concern in the political economy is how national income is shared between labor and capital.  This study evaluates long-term changes in factor income shares in three agri-food industries, their attribution to the level of factor usage or to factor compensation rates, and relation to changes in capital intensity and factor productivity.  We find long-term stability in the profit and labor shares of farm income, decline, in the profit share of agricultural serviced industry income, and increase in the profit share of food manufacturing income due to fewer productivity improvements being passed on to wage increases.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Factor shares; Food; GDP; National income; D33; E25; L66.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43474

U.S. Meatpacking: Dynamic Forces of Change in a Mature Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Buhr,   Brian L.; Ginn,   Bruce.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Meatpacking; Five Forces; Competition; Supply Chain; Vertical Coordination; Relevant Markets; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries; Q13; Q18; L11; L22; L2; L66.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/104210

Does traceability play a role in retailer’s strategies for private labels?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Banterle,   Alessandro; Souza Monteiro,   Diogo M.; Stranieri,   Stefanella.
Traceability is helping retailers manage food safety risks and support product differentiation. This paper aims to investigate how traceability may be used to screen supplier for private labels dedicated provider pools. Retailers in the UK and Italy have several private label product lines and increasingly select dedicated suppliers. The choice of providers is a typical agency problem as retailers contract the production for their private labels, having incomplete information on types and effort of their suppliers. Different contracts must be designed for suppliers of private labels depending on position of the product line and its food safety risk. A case study, based on the second largest Italian retailer reveals that traceability and quality assurance...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Traceability; Dedicated providers; Food products; Retailing; Vertical coordination; Marketing; Q13; Q18; L81; L66; L15.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50933

Competition Effects of Supermarket Services
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bonanno,   Alessandro; Lopez,   Rigoberto A.
This paper investigates the effect of in-store services on retail food prices, supermarket competition, and demand using fluid milk as a case study. It is shown that higher-service supermarkets charge higher milk prices essentially because of an increase in market power due to differentiation of service offering. Results show that different types of services impact milk prices differently, that upscale food-retailers face stronger competition in newer services, and that service competition results in a trade-off for the consumer between the attractiveness of the enhanced retail configuration and the increase in prices.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Retailing; Pricing; Milk; Supermarkets; Agribusiness; L81; D40; L66.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9833

The Effect of Retailer Concentration and Store Format on Consumers’ Food Purchasing Decisions
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Volpe,   Richard J., III; Okrent,   Abigail M.; Leibtag,   Ephraim S.
Replaced with revised version of paper 09/23/11.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food purchases; Supercenters; Obesity; Consumer behavior; Food retail; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Health Economics and Policy; Industrial Organization; L66; P46; D12; L11.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103448

STOP OR GO? HOW IS THE UK FOOD INDUSTRY RESPONDING TO FRONT-OF-PACK NUTRITION LABELS?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Van Camp,   Debra; Souza Monteiro,   Diogo M.; Hooker,   Neal H.
Food nutrition labels have been used for over a decade to aid consumers in making more informed diet choices and to potentially reduce societal costs from diet-related diseases and health conditions. While there is some evidence of the effectiveness of nutrition labels in changing consumption patterns, the scale of such improvements have been marginal. This has led certain government agencies to consider alternative forms of nutrition information. One such approach is front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition labels which provide simple, easily accessible information on a limited number of key nutrients. The use of FOP labels may facilitate healthier diets by influencing consumer behaviour and by providing an incentive for industry to formulate healthier products....
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Front-of-pack; Nutrition labelling; Traffic light; Guideline daily allowance; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q18; L66; L81.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116400

Do Sales Matter? An Exploration of Price Discounting in UK Food Retailing
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lloyd,   Tim A.; Morgan,   C. Wyn; McCorriston,   Steve; Zgovu,   Evious.
This paper assesses the impact of promotional activity in the prices of food products on supermarket shelves. The study analyses a unique, high frequency panel of supermarket prices consisting of over 230,000 weekly price observations on around 500 products in 15 categories of food stocked by the UK’s seven largest retail chains. In all, 1,700 weekly time series are available at the barcode-specific level including branded and own label products. Prices are inclusive of promotions and thus allow the frequency, magnitude and duration of sales to be analysed in greater detail than has hitherto been possible with UK data. Using this price data, sales periods are indentified. Results show that around 8% of products are on sale at any one time, and that sales...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food retailing; Pricing; Sales; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Marketing; L16; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51572

Building trust in agri-food chains: the mediating role of effective communication
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Fischer,   Christian.
Using recent survey data (n = 1,430) on trust levels in agri-food supplier-buyer relationships in six different European countries, two commodity chains (meat and cereals) and two chain stages (farmer-processor and processor-retailer), main determinants of trust are identified and discussed.  The structural equation modelling estimation results indicate that trust can be significantly improved by effective communication and by a positive collaboration experience.  The existence of personal bonds does not seem to play a direct role in the retailer-processor relationship but is important when dealing with farmers.  In both chain stages a positive collaboration experience as well the existence of personal bonds also indirectly enhance trust by promoting...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Trust; Agri-food Chains; Europe; Agribusiness; Marketing; Q13; L14; L66.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50106

FUNCTIONAL FOODS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: AN OVERVIEW OF THE SECTOR'S MAIN ISSUES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Castellini,   Alessandra; Canavari,   Maurizio; Pirazzoli,   Carlo.
In Europe the demand of functional foods varies remarkably from country to country, on the basis of the alimentary traditions, the enforced legislation and the different cultural heritage that people have acquired. The opportunities of expansion on the market seem to be quite favorable and the interest of the consumers is rather high.  But the diffusion of these products in the community area is slowed down by some obstacles. One of main ones is the lack of an official law-recognized definition for these references, necessary in order to clearly assign these products to the food sector rather than to the pharmaceutical one.  In a such situation, we note that nowadays it is impossible to carry out a complete survey of this world, due to the lack of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q13; Q18; L65; L66.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14456

DER SLOWAKISCHE MARKT FUR MILCH UND MILCHPRODUKTE -- VOM BEGINN DER TRANSFORMATION BIS ZUM EU-BEITRITT
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Glitsch,   Kristina; Eerits,   Alena.
Like in other CEEC, transition in the beginning of the 1990s had significant consequences for the agricultural and food sectors in Slovakia. For example, Slovakian consumers reacted to the abolition of consumer subsidies by drastically reducing their consumption of milk and milk products. Concurrently, milk production declined and now stands at fifty percent of its 1989 level. Dairies were closed down while those remaining carried on producing under constantly increasing overcapacities. In the years prior to EU accession, activities in the milk sector were primarily aimed at the adoption of EU standards. Meanwhile, the Slovakian milk processing industry is predominantly in the possession of foreign investors. Present per capita consumption of milk and milk...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Slovakia; Dairy industry; Milk consumption; Milk production; Milk processing; Structural change; Livestock Production/Industries; L11; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14873

THE REGULATORY REGIME AND ITS IMPACT ON INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN AGRO-FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE EU AND USA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Menrad,   Klaus.
Paper prepared for presentation at the Conference: “Seeds of Change: Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), April 8 to 10th, 2004
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agro-food Biotechnology; Innovation; European Union; United States; Regulations; Industrial Organization; L5; L66; O32.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91014

Milchverarbeitung und -vermarktung in Deutschland - eine deskriptive Analyse der Wertschöpfungskette
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Friedrich,   Carina.
Zusammenfassung: Die Wertschöpfungskette Milch in Deutschland steht vor der Herausforderung, sich in einem zunehmend liberalisierten Milch- und Milchproduktmarkt zu behaupten. Neben der Milchproduktion hat in der Wertschöpfungskette vor allem die Milchverarbeitung eine zentrale Funktion. Diese veredelt den international relativ homogenen Rohstoff Milch zu sehr unterschiedlichen Produkten. Die speziellen Produkteigenschaften von Milch (geringe Transportwürdigkeit und Lagerfähigkeit) erfordern zudem eine sehr enge Kopplung der beiden Wertschöpfungsstufen Milchproduktion und -verarbeitung. Dabei stehen sich in der Wertschöpfungskette viele Landwirte und einige Molkereien einem stark konzentrierten Lebensmitteleinzelhandel gegenüber. Die Molkereistruktur ist...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Wertschöpfungskette Milch; Milchwirtschaft; Molkereistruktur; SAtrukturanalyse; Dairy supply chain; Dairy economy; Structure of milk processing; Structure analysis; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries; Q11; Q13; L66.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108262

Strategic Vertical Pricing in the U.S. Butter Market
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Du,   Ying; Stiegert,   Kyle W.
This article develops a methodology for empirically analyzing vertically strategic interactions in a multi-level supply channel. The model is used to analyze the vertical channel for U.S. butter manufacturing and retailing.  Aggregating products to the firm level and using a nonlinear AIDS demand system under alternative strategic pricing assumptions is estimated using full information maximum likelihood (FIML) for seven geographic markets from 1998-2002.  The market demand for butter was found to very price elastic.  Furthermore, cross price elasticities between private labels and the two large national brands were also very elastic. The selected market structure was one indicating category profit maximization of national brands (separate from private...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Vertical interaction; Market structure; Strategic pricing; Market power; AIDS model; Butter.; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; L13; L22; L66.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51712

Food Safety Regulation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from the French Food Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Requillart,   Vincent; Nauges,   Celine; Simioni,   Michel; Bontemps,   Christophe.
The purpose of this article is to assess whether food safety regulations imposed by the European Union in the 2000s may have induced a slow-down in the productivity of firms in the food processing sector. The impact of regulations on costs and productivity has seldom been studied. This article contributes to the literature by measuring productivity change using a panel of French food processing firms for the years 1996 to 2006. To do so, we develop an original iterative testing procedure based on the comparison of the distribution of efficiency scores of a set of firms. Our results confirm that productivity decreased in the poultry processing industry at the time when safety regulation was reinforced.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Total factor productivity; Safety regulation; Food processing sector; Panel data; Non-parametrics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; C14; D24; L66.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124378

Price Linkage and Transmission between Shippers and Retailers in the French Fresh Vegetable Channel
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hassan,   Daniel; Simioni,   Michel.
The existence and the kind of asymmetry that characterize the relationships between shipping-point and retail prices are investigated for two major French fresh vegetables: tomatoes and chicory. Weekly data allow considering these relationships at very detailed levels such as region or supermarket chain. Moreover, the methodology proposes an implicit treatment of asymmetries in price transmission by using recently developed threshold cointegration methods. Our results do not give evidence to the widespread assertion that shipping-point price increases are completely and rapidly passed by middlemen on to consumers while there is a slower and less complete transmission of shipping-point price declines. As already emphasized in the literature, these results...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; L66; L81; Q13.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24794

FUNCTIONAL FOODS AS DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bonanno,   Alessandro.
Food products providing health benefits beyond nutrition, or functional foods, draw consumers’ attention and promise growth opportunities for innovator food manufacturers. European functional food manufacturers may be facing future challenges, mainly due to the European Union Regulation (EC) No.1924/2006 regulating food products’ health-claims. However, in spite of the interest shown by academics to understand the acceptance of these products no study exists that analyzes the profitability of functional foods. Using a relatively novel methodology – an adaptation of the LA/AIDS model by means of Pinkse Slade and Brett’s (2002) distance metric (DM) method – this article treats functional foods as differentiated products and provides estimates of demand and...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Functional Foods; Differentiated Products; Distance Metric; Yogurt; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; L15; L25; L66.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116420

Protection of Intellectual Property while Outsourcing
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Sen Gupta,   Rajorshi; Love,   H. Alan.
Food and Beverage companies need to share their Intellectual Property (IP) when they outsource production and/or R&amp;D to contract agents. IP sharing can facilitate misappropriation and the contractor may eventually start competing with the client. We design an incentive compatible contract that can protect company IP. A two-pronged strategy is proposed: Companies should share less know-how and give high incentive payments to deter IP misappropriation. Strategies like product differentiation may be highly useful to deter piracy.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Intellectual Property Protection; Outsourcing; Product Differentiation; R&amp;D; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; Risk and Uncertainty; L14; L21; L23; L66; 031; 032; 034.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103856

The Relationship between Innovation and Marketing in SMEs in the EU Food Sector
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Banterle,   Alessandro; Cavaliere,   Alessia; Stranieri,   Stefanella; Carraresi,   Laura.
In the EU market small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the greater part of the food industry, specially with regard to traditional food products (TFPs). However, the growth of competition, connected mainly to globalisation, is making it very difficult for SMEs to survive. On the other hand, market opportunities for SMEs are connected to the evolution of consumer preferences toward food quality. To profit from such opportunities and to survive on the market, SMEs need to adapt their strategies, focusing on innovation aspects in order to meet consumer requirements and to compete on the market. The literature shows that firms’ market orientation and marketing capabilities are very important for innovation in food industries to guarantee that...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Traditional food products; Innovation; Marketing management capabilities; Linear regression model; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; Production Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; L25; L66; M31; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100589

Agricultural Prices, Selection, and the Evolution of Food Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gaigne,   Carl; Le Mener,   Leo.
In this paper, we set up a simple model that explains the relation between low input price, high exit rates and industrial oncentration. More precisely, we argue that falling input prices force firms with low productivity to exit and induce expansion of more efficient incumbents at the expense of less productive producers. Our model helps reconcile some well‐established empirical results regarding the food processing industry. Indeed, agricultural prices have been declining between the early 1900s until 2006 while, over the same period, concentration and firm productivity have been increasing in the agri‐food industry.
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: Input price; Downstream industry; Entry/exit; Industrial concentration; Firm heterogeneity; Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization; International Relations/Trade; D24; L11; L25; L66.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/125221

Promotion and Fast Food Demand: Where's the Beef?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Richards,   Timothy J.; Padilla,   Luis.
Many believe that fast food promotion is a significant cause of the obesity epidemic in North America. Industry members argue that promotion only reallocates brand shares and does not increase overall demand. This study weighs into the debate by specifying and estimating a discrete/continuous model of fast food restaurant choice and food expenditure that explicitly accounts for both spatial and temporal determinants of demand. Estimates are obtained using a unique panel of Canadian fast food consumers. The results show that promotion primarily increases demand and has very little effect on restaurant market shares.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consumer demand; Discrete choice; Fast food; Pricing strategy; Promotion; Spatial modeling; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing; C25; D12; I18; L66; M31.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7711

Socially Optimal Taxation of Alcohol: The Case of Czech Beer
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Janda,   Karel; Mikolasek,   Jakub; Netuka,   Martin.
The proposed paper belongs to the literature on food demand and optimal taxation and to the literature dealing with economics of alcohol production and consumption. We investigate the question of optimal taxation for the commodity whose consumption has positive and negative features both for individual consumer and for the society. The commodity we analyze is the Czech beer.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Almost Ideal Demand System; Alcohol; Beer; Brewing industry; Consumption; The Czech Republic; Elasticity; Price; Spirits; Tax; Wine.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Health Economics and Policy; Public Economics; D12; L66; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61464

Estrategias sobre innovacion en las empresas multinacionales agroalimentarias
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rama,   Ruth; Alfranca,   Oscar; von Tunzelmann,   Nicholas.
Las multinacionales agroalimentarias son las principales innovadoras del sector agroalimentario mundial y agentes económicos fundamentales del cambio tecnológico en el sector agroalimentario español. El estudio del comportamiento innovador de las multinacionales agroalimentarias presenta interés puesto que el 50% de la tecnología relacionada mundialmente con la alimentación procede de este tipo de empresas. Basándonos en una muestra de más de 16.000 patentes concedidas, entre 1969-94, a las mayores empresas  multinacionales alimentarias y en los resultados de diversos estudios recientes, este trabajo aborda algunos de los principales aspectos de la innovación en estos importantes agentes económicos, tales como la globalización de sus actividades...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agrifood multinational; Patents; Innovation; Food industry; Agribusiness; F23; L66.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28793

INCREASING COORDINATION IN THE PLANT AND PLANT PRODUCT PROCESSING AND HANDLING SECTOR
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Boland,   Michael A.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Food Economy; Industry Analysis; Five Forces; Food Processing; Agribusiness; L10; L16; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100788

MILK AND MILK PROCESSING INDUSTRY IN LITHUANIA: AN ANALYSIS OF HORIZONZAL AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kedaitiene,   Angele; Hockmann,   Heinrich.
Despite significant progress in recent years, horizontal and vertical integration of the Lithuanian milk sector is not very much advanced. The primary sector is characterised by small-scale farming, the fragmentation of farmland and a low number of livestock per farms. These features cause severe problems regarding the restructuring and modernisation of agricultural production since only a few farmers possess the capital resources to conduct necessary investments. However, despite the unfavourable conditions Lithuanian milk producers have made significant improvements concerning milk quality. In the last decade, the processing sector was due to drastic concentration processes. These were induced by the strong competition processes on the milk market and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Horizontal and vertical integration; Lithuanian milk sector; Foreign trade; Consumption; Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries; L11; L66; Q13.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14930

Focussing on Consumer Attention: Price-Quality Relationships and Reputation Indicators
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Schamel,   Guenter.
In Germany, the focus of agricultural policy is now "the consumer". In the aftermath of the BSE crisis, farmers are encouraged to produce higher quality "ecological" food for which consumers are willing to pay more. Food is an experience good and quality signals are becoming a more important determinant of the prices received. However, given consumers' cognitive limitations, all signals can not receive equal attention. We argue that consumer attention to product quality signals increases with its producer's quality performance, and given attention spillovers (collective reputation), with the expertise of associated producers. Over time, collective reputations should have an effect on price when attention (or quality performance) is low, but should lose...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Food and beverages; Consumer economics; Regional and producer reputation; Consumer/Household Economics; L66; D83; Q18.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24933

ESTIMATING COKE AND PEPSI'S PRICE ADVERTISING STRATEGIES
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Golan,   Amos; Karp,   Larry S.; Perloff,   Jeffrey M.
AgEcon Search copy replaced with 1999 version 02/02/06.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Strategies; Noncooperative games; Oligopoly; Generalized maximum entropy; Beverages; Marketing; C13; C35; C72; L13; L66.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25057

Determinants of Malaysian Household Expenditures on Food-Away-From-Home
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Lee,   Helen; Tan,   Andrew K.G.
The censored Tobit model is applied on data from the Malaysian Household Expenditure Survey (1998/99) to identify socio-demographic determinants of household expenditures on food-away-from-home (FAFH). Results indicate that Chinese, urban residents, and those with higher monthly household income spend significantly more on FAFH expenditures than their non-Chinese, rural, and lower household income cohorts, ceteris paribus. Other results obtained suggest that age of household head, gender, education level and household size do not significantly affect household expenditures on FAFH. Based on the above findings, several observations are noted. First, the current range of menus being served can be further diversified in order to attract those with religious...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Censored demand; Household-expenditures; Food-away-from-home; Malaysia; Socio-demographics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; L66; C24; D12.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25430

Estrategias empresariales y propension exportadora de la industria agroalimentaria catalana y espanola
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ameur,   Mehrez; Gil,   Jose Maria.
Resumen En un entorno económico más globalizado, la competitividad de las empresas se convierte en una necesidad estratégica de supervivencia, sobre todo en el sector agroindustrial. Ante los cambios observados en los mercados y los hábitos del consumidor, las empresas deben adaptarse adoptando las estrategias adecuadas. El objetivo de este trabajo se centra en determinar los principales factores explicativos de la propensión exportadora de la industria agroalimentaria española y catalana.  Los datos utilizados proceden de la Encuesta de Estrategias Empresariales (ESEE). Para alcanzar este objetivo, se ha especificado y estimado un modelo que tiene en cuenta la naturaleza microeconómica de los datos utilizados. La cualificación del personal, la presencia...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agrofood industry; Firms' strategies; Exports; Catalonia; Agribusiness; C31; L66.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28797

Competitiveness and Agri-food Trade: An Empirical Analysis in the European Union
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Banterle,   Alessandro.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the competitive performance of the EU countries for food trade in the European market during the period 1990-2003. To assess such performance the analysis considers comparative advantage and evaluates three indices: export market share (EMS), revealed comparative advantage (RCA) and net export index (NEI). These three indices are found to be high in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Spain, but only Spain has shown significant competitive performance during the last decade. Also the competitive performance of Germany and Italy is good, although their RCA and NEI values are low. Among the other countries the trend in the indices for Austria, Portugal and Sweden is on the increase.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Competitive performance measures; Competitiveness; Agri-food trade; European Union; International Relations/Trade; Q17; L66; F14.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24692

The Effects of Relative Price and Health Information on Derived Demand for Sweeteners in the U.S. Food Processing Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Hailu,   Getu; Thangaraj,   Rawlin; Cranfield,   John A.L.
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.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Derived Demand; Sweeteners; Relative Prices; Health Information; Trade offs; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D21; I18; L66.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6835