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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | LONG-RUN EFFECTS FROM CONSUMER REACTION TO THE SPREAD OF FOODBORNE PATHOGENS: THE CASE OF E. COLI CONTAMINATION OF BEEF AT JACK IN THE BOX RESTAURANTS
Autores: | Zhen,   Chen.
Data: | 2009-06-18
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Food safety; Habit persistence; Linear rational expectations model; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; D12; D18.
Resumo: | Using news coverage of food safety as an indicator of public attention to food pathogen issues in meat products, we found the 1993 E. coli O157:H7 contamination of hamburgers likely permanently changed consumers' perception of beef safety. A food consumption model with rational habit persistence is developed to examine whether consumers make forward-looking consumption decisions accounting for expectations of future food safety. We document clear evidence of forward-looking consumption behavior, which suggests that government regulations implemented subsequent to the 1993 event to protect consumers from ignorance or cognitive defects may be ineffective.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/51341

Relação:

International Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China

Contributed Paper

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Formato: | 32