SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Galdeano-Gomez, Emilio; Cespedes-Lorente, Jose; Rodriguez, Manuel Rodriguez.

The object of the present paper is to analyse productivity incorporating quality-environmental changes in marketing co-operatives. Firstly, it reviews competitiveness factors in the current European agri-food market, especially in relation to the fruit and vegetables sector. Secondly, the productivity trend is studied empirically using nonparametric methods (Malmquist indices) and taking as reference panel data of Andalusian horticultural co-operatives for the period 1994-2001. For this purpose productivity is decomposed into technological change, efficiency and quality-environmental change. Additionally, the correlation of these results with other economic variables is analysed. The indicators obtained show a relevant increase in efficiency for the period...

FIRMS’ RESPONSES TO NUTRITIONAL POLICIES

Palavras-chave: Productivity; Quality-environment; Efficiency; Marketing co-operative; Horticultural sector; Agribusiness; Productivity Analysis; D24; Q13; Q21; L15.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24698

Duvaleix-Treguer, Sabine; Hammoudi, Hakim; Rouached, Lamia; Soler, Louis-Georges.

The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of nutritional policies on the behavior of firms, particularly in terms of food quality and prices, and to assess the potential impacts of such policies from a public health point of view. We determine how new products that are nutritionally improved can emerge in a market where incumbent firms offer competing unhealthy products. We also highlight a non-intentional effect of such policies: if consumer heterogeneity is high, then an information policy may simultaneously provide health benefits to the population as a whole but worsen the health of consumers that are less aware of nutritional effects. For a given level of nutritional tax, we determine the optimal threshold that firms must meet to avoid taxation....

Governance of the Agri-food Chains as a Vector of Credibility for Quality Signalization in Europe

Palavras-chave: Nutrition policy; Product differentiation; Firms’ strategies; Taxation; Quality standards; Public health; 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; I18; H23.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116399

Raynaud, Emmanuel; Sauvee, Loic; Valceschini, Egizio.

For many agricultural products, the quality of the final products strongly depends on different stages of the productive chain. This stresses the importance of relationships between quality signal owners and suppliers in the vertical chain. Based on a New Institutional Economics analysis, the goal of this paper is twofold: (i) to design a framework to study the links between quality signaling, coordination in the supply chains and the institutional environment, (ii) to conduct a comparative analysis to identify, compare and explain the modes of organization implemented for the governance of different quality signs. The general hypothesis is that, in order to assure the credibility of a quality signal, there must be an efficient alignment between quality...

Contracting for Impure Public Goods: Carbon Offsets and Additionality

Palavras-chave: Alignment; Credibility; Governance structures; Quality signals; Agribusiness; L14; L15; L22.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24917

Mason, Charles F.; Plantinga, Andrew J..

Governments contracting with private agents for the provision of an impure public good must contend with agents who would potentially supply the good absent any payments. This additionality problem is centrally important in the use of carbon offsets as part of climate change mitigation. Analyzing optimal contracts for forest carbon sequestration, an important offset category, we conduct a national-scale simulation using results from an econometric model of land-use change. The results indicate that for an increase in forest area of 50 million acres, annual government expenditures with optimal contracts are about $4 billion lower compared than under a uniform subsidy.

Partial Implementation of COOL: Economic Effects in the U.S. Seafood Industry

Palavras-chave: Carbon Sequestration; Incentive Contracting; Offsets; Additionality; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q2; D8; L15.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101290

Joseph, Siny; Lavoie, Nathalie; Caswell, Julie A..

Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL) was implemented on seafood in the United States on April 4, 2005. MCOOL exempts the foodservice sector and excludes processed seafood from labeling. This paper contributes to understanding the economics of the MCOOL law for seafood by showing that current partial implementation may have unintended consequences on the domestic supply chain. While labeling satisfies the market demand for information provision in one market, exemptions in the other market may create incentives for the diversion of imports, which are assumed to be lower in quality than domestic seafood, to the non-labeled sector. Analyzing alternate scenarios such as voluntary labeling shows that total welfare may be greatest under this scenario...

Il quadro normativo sulle denominazioni commerciali dei prodotti ittici nella gestione delle frodi: strumento di gestione o problema irrisolto?

Palavras-chave: Country of origin labeling; Product differentiation; Information asymmetry; Seafood; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing; L15; L22; Q18.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55921

Gaviglio, Anna; Pirani, Alberto; Demartini, Eugenio.

Authors suppose the amounts of fraudulent seafood sales reported in recent years to be somehow correlated to the problems of Italian commercial fish-naming policy. However, given the lack of data and studies, the work has an exploratory nature focusing on three main issues: the seafood labeling policy framework, the evolution of lists of fish species’ trade names and the spread and type of fraudulent sales. According data authors believe that the fish-naming system is improving, however that lack of studies estimating the right amount of diversification in trade names for marine species seems so to be a weakness for a winning policy. Furthermore, seafood retailers seems to assume an important role on fraud management and government should support research...

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Fish products; Labeling; Consumer protection; Research perspectives; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade; L15; Q18; Q22.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/130451

ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PRIVATE FOOD STANDARDS

Giraud-Heraud, Eric; Grazia, Cristina; Hammoudi, Abdelhakim.

This paper provides an original theoretical framework to better understand the raise of private quality standards in agrifood chains. Reasons for the development and conditions for the effectiveness of private quality standards are identified, by investigating firms’ strategic behaviour and, more precisely, both interactions among processing/retailing firms and upstream producers and the role of consumers’ behaviour. Considering different levels of consumers risk perception, we show that the incentive for firms to develop a more stringent private standard may increase with the level of the regulated minimum quality standard. Moreover, setting a private standard may reduce the risk of consumer dissatisfaction while increasing the marketed quantity....

Seafood Label Effectiveness in the Amherst Market: A Study of the Quality and Quantity of Point of Purchase Information

Palavras-chave: Private quality standards; Vertical relationships; Risk perception; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; L1; L15; Q13; Q18.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116408

Wagstaff, James.

As evidenced by the recent release of a comprehensive Institute of Medicine report on seafood consumption and by the passage of the 2002 Farm Bill, it is clear that there is growing concern about the health benefits and risks of fish consumption. This research project was designed to analyze the seafood market in Amherst, Massachusetts, and, specifically, to explore the effectiveness of seafood product labeling provided by the largest retailers in the area. Studying the availability of seafood and the associated labeling practices reveals how the Amherst market meets the needs of different consumers. While each venue generally adheres to the regulatory requirements of seafood labeling, this research includes recommendations as to how the market might...

Willingness-to-Pay for Calf Health Programs and Certification Agents

Palavras-chave: Seafood; Country of Origin Labeling; Retail Availability; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; D12; L15; Q18.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7388

Schumacher, Tucker; Schroeder, Ted C.; Tonsor, Glynn T..

Cattle feeders want feeder cattle that have been weaned and preconditioned with a certified health program. Preconditioned calves perform more efficiently in the feedlot with lower morbidity and mortality. Health program claims, however, range from no claim to being USDA-certified. The value of health protocol certification may vary with certifying entity. Results from a choice experiment and survey of cattle feeders indicate preconditioning programs that include weaning, vaccinating against respiratory and clostridial/blackleg, and treating for parasites are worth on average $7.28/cwt to feedlots. Furthermore, a health program certified by USDA carries an additional value of $2.37/cwt on average.

Tipo: Article

Palavras-chave: Calf health programs; Calf preconditioning; Value of certification; Marketing; Q13; L15; D82.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123777

The Trade-Off Between Liquidity and Precision of Position in Option Contracts

Koch, Alexander K.; Lazarov, Zdravetz.

More liquid financial contracts are claimed to draw trading volume from contracts for which they are close substitutes. We provide the first analysis of how trading volume across existing financial contracts is affected by changes in the factors that govern the degree to which they are substitutes. Using data on DAX options with different strike prices, we identify these factors and their impact on the distribution of trades across contracts. The results are relevant for exchange design since they help gauge when options with different strike prices are good (bad) substitutes and the strike price grid should be coarse (fine).

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Clustering; Exchange Design; Options; Risk and Uncertainty; G10; G20; L15.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50155

Individual and Collective Reputation: Lessons from the Wine Market

Castriota, Stefano; Delmastro, Marco.

The concept of reputation has been used in every field of economic research, given its capacity to affect the outcome of all economic and financial transactions. The theoretical debate on reputation is very rich, but the mechanisms of reputation building have not been explored enough from the empirical viewpoint. In this paper we investigate the determinants of firm reputation taking into consideration the interactions between individual and collective reputation. This paper is one of the first attempts to provide robust evidence on the determinants of firm reputation using a large set of controls applied to a database not affected by self-selection bias. In fact, we constructed a new database containing the universe of wineries located in four regions of...

Producer's choice of certification

Palavras-chave: Reputation; Credibility; Asymmetric information; Quality standards; Industrial Organization; L14; L15.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45504

Langinier, Corinne; Babcock, Bruce A..

Consumers are in general less informed than producers about the quality of agricultural goods. To reduce the information gap, consumers can rely on standards (labels, certifications, geographic indications) that insure quality and origin of the goods. However, these standards do not always fully reveal information. Some of them may just signal that the good is more likely to be of high quality. We investigate what kind of standards are most desirable for producers, and for society in general knowing that any system is costly to implement. One of our findings is that for intermediate values of certification costs, certification that fully reveals information makes high quality producers better off, but make the entire industry worse off. In this case, the...

A Theory of Strategic Diffusion

Palavras-chave: Asymmetric information; Certification; Clubs; Quality.; Consumer/Household Economics; L11; L15; D82; D71.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19510

Goyal, Sanjeev; Galeotti, Andrea.

The important role of friends, neighbors and colleagues in shaping individual choices has been brought out in a number of studies over the years. The presence of significant local influence in shaping individual behavior suggests that firms, governments and developmental agencies should explicitly incorporate it in the design of their marketing and developmental strategies. This paper develops a framework for the study of optimal strategies in the presence of social interaction. We focus on the case of a single player who exerts costly effort to get a set of individuals engaged in social interaction to choose a certain action. Our formulation allows for different types of social interaction (ranging from sharing of information to direct adoption...

Variabilidad de corto plazo en la formación de precios en mercados de haciendas en el Uruguay.

Palavras-chave: Social Interaction; Seeding the Network; Word of Mouth Communication; Diffusion Strategy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; D8; L15.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9096

Lanfranco, Bruno A.; Ois, Cecilia; Bedat, Alina.

El mercado de haciendas es un mercado diferenciado, donde la calidad del producto está determinada por un conjunto de atributos que lo define completamente. Existe un diferencial de precios (premios y descuentos) que depende de las características del ganado. A través de un modelo de precios hedónicos se estimó el valor monetario que el mercado otorga a dichas características, medidas sobre más de 8.000 lotes (454 mil vacunos) comercializados por pantalla. La mayoría de las variables incluidas en los catálogos incidieron en la formación de los precios. Peso, sexo, raza, clase, estado, procedencia, uniformidad, tratamiento nutricional y conocimiento del mío-mío, son características que afectaron significativamente el precio. Varias de estas variables...

Tipo: Book

Palavras-chave: Hedonic prices; Product differentiation; Demand for characteristics; Agribusiness; Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; D44; L15; Q13.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121686

Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: Incentive Schemes on the Horticultural Sector

Galdeano-Gomez, Emilio; Cespedes-Lorente, Jose; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Manuel.

The object of the present paper is to analyze the productivity of marketing cooperatives incorporating environmental inputs/outputs. In the European agricultural policy, expectations for attaining sustainable and competitive agriculture lie to a great extent on the cooperative sector's ability to adapt to the new market conditions. These challenges have led marketing cooperatives in the fruit and vegetables sector to consider improvement in productivity and sound environmental performance. In this sector environmental management was intensified by the Common Agrarian Policy (CAP) through incentives on the so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to environmental variables in this sector using...

Food safety and nutritional quality – Firms’ strategies and Public intervention

Palavras-chave: Productivity; Environmental performance; Parametric approach; Efficiency; Marketing cooperative; Horticultural sector; Agribusiness; Environmental Economics and Policy; Productivity Analysis; D24; Q13; Q21; L15.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25738

Hammoudi, Abdelhakim; Nguyen, Huong-Hue; Soler, Louis-Georges.

The aim of our paper is to determine the conditions under which firms tend to offer the best nutritional quality of food products, and the public regulation required to obtain this in a context where diet and nutritional status plays an important part in maintaining health and preventing disease, and with increasing pressure for public intervention on food quality in developed countries. To this end, we develop a duopoly model where products can be horizontally (variety) and vertically (quality) differentiated. We analyze the perfect Nash equilibriums in a two period competition game where in the first stage, the firms decide simultaneously on the variety and the quality of the product to be sold and in the second stage, firms set prices. The model...

Promoting Organic Food: Information Policy Versus Production Subsidy

Palavras-chave: Nutritional product; Health cost; Public regulation; Vertical and horizontal differentiation.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Industrial Organization; L13; L15; L51; Q18.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51749

Tribl, Christoph; Salhofer, Klaus.

In developed countries governments aim to increase the market share of organic products. Assuming that organic farming creates a positive externality, we address the question of how this environmental benefit can be internalized best. Using the concept of heterogeneous producers and consumers we compare two policy options to enhance organic supply and demand with respect to their efficiency and distributional effect: First, we analyze the effect of a supply-side oriented policy like a subsidy on organic production. Second, we compare this policy measure to a demand-side oriented information policy, which aims to enhance the acceptance and identification of an organic food label. Third, we assume a mix of both policy measures. The main findings of this...

On food quality in domestic markets of developing economies

Palavras-chave: Organic food; Labeling; Production subsidy; Information policy; Welfare; Agricultural and Food Policy; D61; D62; L15; Q18.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24653

Vandeplas, Anneleen; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan F.M..

Food quality has become an important determinant of success in global food trade and growers for international markets have to continuously adjust to buyers’ requirements. It is however not clear to what extent there is a demand for food quality - and how much buyers are willing to pay for it - in the domestic food markets of developing economies. Based on unique price and trader data from domestic food markets in a poor country in Africa (Madagascar) and an emerging economy in Asia (India), we compare quality and quality’s pricing. We find significantly better quality and higher quality premia (using revealed as well as stated preference methods) in the richer country, probably leading to an impetus for the development of modern market channels in this...

Fed Cattle Profit Determinants Under Grid Pricing

Palavras-chave: Food quality; Quality premia; Development; Agricultural and Food Policy; Q12; Q13; L15.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51700

McDonald, R. Allen; Schroeder, Ted C..

This study determines the relative effects of price, cattle quality, and feeding performance factors on profit per head for fed cattle marketed via a grid structure. Two different data sets of cattle that were marketed in two different grid pricing systems are used in the analysis with comparisons of results made between grids. Grid base price and feeder cattle price are the most important determinants of profit over time in both grids. However, considering only nonprice variables, the cumulative quality of cattle in a pen is also an important profit determinant.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Cattle feeding profit; Grid pricing; Robust regression; L15; Q12; Q13.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37836

DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT QUALITY SYSTEM FOR METALLURGICAL ENTERPRISE BASED ON BALANCED SCORECARD WITH LIMITING FACTORS