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| Onyango, Benjamin M.; Miljkovic, Dragan; Hallman, William K.; Nganje, William E.; Condry, Sarah C.; Cuite, Cara L.. |
| This paper examines public perceptions on food safety particularly relating to spinach, which was subject of countrywide recall in 2006. Results indicate that food safety perceptions may be driven by public trust/confidence in institutions whose activities may be directly or indirectly related to food safety. The results further suggest that food safety perceptions may also be related to the type of the product; for example, the public perceives frozen spinach differently from bagged fresh spinach. Additionally, the results show that low levels of objective knowledge about food pathogens and the resulting illnesses have implications on overall food safety. Results further indicate that females and Caucasians perceived the four types of spinach as safe for... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9679 |
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| Onyango, Benjamin M.; Miljkovic, Dragan; Hallman, William K.; Nganje, William E.; Condry, Sarah C.; Cuite, Cara L.. |
| This study analyzes public perceptions on food safety using a national survey conducted soon after the nationwide spinach recall (November 2006). We explore relationships between peoples' perceived risks of food contamination (spinach in this case) and their trust in the institutions in charge of safeguarding/ensuring safety. Finally, we explore relationships between individual observance of basic good food handling practices and food safety. Trust in institutions through which food passes and regulatory agencies were shown to be critical in determining food safety perceptions. For example, skepticism with which the public views food corporations (processors, transporters or retailers) impacted food safety perceptions negatively. On the other, confidence... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food recalls; Food safety; Public perceptions; Spinach; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10004 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan; Paul, Rodney. |
| Trade creation in agricultural products is defined as a statistically significant positive break in the trend function of the growth in exports and imports between member countries. The present study attempts to determine the time of any break in the trend of real exports and imports between the Canada–USA Free Trade Agreement (CUSTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) member countries for the years 1980:I through 1999:II, and document the scale of the phenomenon. The present study finds trade creation only occurs in USA agricultural exports to Canada because of CUSTA. The results confirm the theory that the regionalism of NAFTA did not lead to regionalisation or an increasing share of intraregional international trade. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116991 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan; Jin, Hyun Joung. |
| The case of reduction in ad valorem tariffs as a trade liberalization policy is considered in this article. It is shown that the reduction leads to a higher quality of imports, ceteris paribus. This hypothesis was tested on the case of Japanese beef imports from the United States and Australia. U.S. beef, according to the results of Gallup surveys, is considered by Japanese consumers to be a high quality product, while Australian beef is considered to be a low quality product. Empirical results support the hypothesis. Moreover, the recent domination of U.S. beef in the Japanese market is further explained by increasingly more efficient U.S. beef production relative to Australian production and a strong income effect, where an increase in per capita income... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Ad valorem tariff; Beef imports; Japan; Quality; Trade liberalization; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10222 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan; Garcia, Roberto J.. |
| Efforts to stabilized employment and output in the agricultural sector of Yugoslavia through monetization contributed to inflationary pressures. Granger causality tests suggested that increases in the rate of growth in the supply of money to subsidize state-owned agribusiness were insufficient to maintain purchases of wheat and corn, but did cause purchases of cattle and swine. This result may be explained by producers having more flexibility in grain marketing (i.e., storage options and private buyers) and the perishability issues related to livestock marketing. The policy to maintain employment through monetization is shown to have been ineffective. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Employment; Granger causality; Inflation; Money supply; State purchases; Yugoslavia; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15123 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan; Gong, Jian; Lehrke, Linda. |
| Trivial or irrelevant attributes are defined as attributes that do not create a meaningful difference in a brand’s performance. The objective of this paper is to determine if and how trivial attributes affect consumers in their choice of variety/brands of food products including frozen green beans, orange juice, canola oil, and frosted strawberry toaster pastries. Sixty subjects participated in the experiment. Subjects understood that trivial attributes are less important than substantive attributes. Substantive (important) quality attributes and economic variables affecting choice were all perceived equal across brands by the subjects in the experiment. Two critical driving forces in determining the presence and direction of the effect of a trivial... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Consumer choice; Food products; Product attributes; Promotional attributes; Choice set size; Trivial attributes; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55557 |
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| Ndembe, Elvis; Nganje, William E.; Miljkovic, Dragan. |
| Foodborne disease outbreaks have a tremendous impact on society, including foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, lost work time, and deaths. These food-safety events have a significant influence in shaping consumer's perception of risk. In food consumption, outbreaks of foodborne illnesses also have an effect on the development of public health policy. Due to these safety-related uncertainties in the food supply chain, various regulatory safety and health policies are implemented to decrease potential harm to likely victims. The expected effect of these food-safety policies forecasted in terms of reduction in foodborne illnesses, mortality, and food-related diseases may be overstated if consumer's offsetting behavior is overlooked. Reduction and in some... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Consumer Behavior; Food Safety Policies; HACCP; Offsetting Behavior; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6505 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan. |
| This session focuses on applications of various migration, family labor and labor market models in international settings. Papers include: Rural Labor Mobility in China: Net Flows and Trends, Bryan Lohmar and Scott Rozelle, University of California-Davis; Changbao Zhao, Research Center for Rural Economics, Beijing. Fertility Desires and Sample Selection Bias: The Case of Senegal, Diafuka Saila-Ngita, Boris Bravo-Ureta, and Rafael Perez-Escamilla, University of Connecticut. Intergenerational Succession in Israeli Family Farms Ayal Kimhi and Noga Nachlieli, Hebrew University. A Panel Data Approach to the Output-Inflation Tradeoff: A Review of the International Evidence, Harold Zavarce, Carolina Pagliacci, and Maria-Christina Espinoza, Texas A&M... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20932 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan; Marsh, John M.; Brester, Gary W.. |
| Japanese import demand for U.S. beef and pork products and the effects on domestic livestock prices are econometrically estimated. Japan is the most important export market for U.S. beef and pork products. Results indicate foreign income, exchange rates, and protectionist measures are statistically significant. The comparative statistics quantify the effects of recent economic volatility. For example, the 1995-1998 depreciation in the Japanese yen (39%) reduced U.S. slaughter steer and hog prices by $1.29 per cwt and $0.99 per cwt, respectively, while the 1994-1998 reduction in tariffs (14%) increased slaughter steer and hog prices by $0.49 per cwt and $0.33 per cwt, respectively. Livestock producers will continue to have a vested interest in Asian... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Elasticities; Exchange rates; Import demand; Income; Tariffs; Demand and Price Analysis; Q17; F14; C32. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15072 |
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| Antle, John M.; Capalbo, Susan Marie; Johnson, James B.; Miljkovic, Dragan. |
| This study examined possible economic impacts on Northern Plains grain producers of policies that could be undertaken by the United States to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The paper begins with a discussion of the potential effects of the Kyoto Protocol on prices of energy and inputs used in agricultural production. The next section describes the data and econometric models that were used to develop a field-scale, stochastic simulation model of the crop production system typical of the Northern Plains. This model is based on econometric production models estimated with a spatially referenced, statistically representative sample of farmers in Montana. The simulation analysis shows that the impacts of higher energy prices would tend to discourage the use... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31494 |
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| Miljkovic, Dragan. |
| Cointegration of Canadian and U.S. livestock prices points to the existence of market integration in the period 1996:1 to 2004:12 even though the trade flows of livestock and beef products were non-existent for many months in 2003 and 2004 (suggesting market segmentation) due to livestock/beef import bans by both countries due to BSE. It was also determined that Canada's trade dependence in livestock and beef is cointegrated with Canadian and U.S. livestock prices. However, as the trade dependence variable is shocked, the effects on Canadian and U.S. prices are opposite although one would expect that in an integrated market the price responses to an exogenous shock would be similar or statistically identical. This result reinforces the case against the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18996 |
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| Lewis, Andrew; Nganje, William E.; Mattson, Jeremy W.; Miljkovic, Dragan; Wilson, William W.. |
| This study provides a framework to value investment strategies to mitigate possible agro-terrorism occurrences in the food supply chain and to determine where these investments would reduce the most risk. This framework is applied to two food sectors that could be at risk: milk and green onions. Stochastic optimization is used to determine the costs and risk premiums of alternative tracking strategies. The real options method along with a portfolio of options, also referred to as the "tomato garden" framework, is used to determine where and when alternative intervention strategies should be implemented to reduce the most risk. Finally, policy implications are derived on the cost-risk tradeoffs, probability of attacks, and containment efforts if there... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agro-terrorism; Stochastic optimization; Real options; Game theory; Milk; Green onions; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7630 |
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