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Garcia-Fuentes, Pablo A.; Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.; Harrison, R. Wes; Kinsey, Jean D.; Degeneffe, Dennis J.. |
A series of recent and serious food safety incidents have generated a national debate over the significant costs that they impose on various stakeholders - consumers, industry, or the government. This paper examines the impact of media coverage of food safety and defense issues on consumer confidence in food safety, and measures the response of stock prices of food companies to changes in consumer confidence. Results show that, increases in media coverage have a negative impact on consumer confidence, and that decreases in the levels of consumer confidence on food safety have a negative impact on stock prices of food companies, in particular for the larger firms. These findings confirm that the financial performance of food the industry is negatively... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61658 |
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Bharad, Abhishek Bhagwat; Harrison, R. Wes; Kinsey, Jean D.; Degeneffe, Dennis J.; Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.. |
Results from continuous tracking of consumer confidence and media coverage of food safety events over a 67 week period between May 2008 and August 2009 are reported. An ordered probit model is used to test the hypothesis that media coverage of food safety events affects consumer confidence in the safety of the U.S. food system. The results show that media coverage significantly and negatively affected consumer confidence in the safety of nation’s food supply during the sample period. Socioeconomic and demographic factors such as geographic region, use of media source, household size, age, ethnicity, education, and gender also had significant affects on consumer confidence in the safety of United States food supply. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Safety; Consumer Confidence; Mass media; Ordered probit; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56423 |
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Garcia-Fuentes, Pablo A.; Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.; Kennedy, P. Lynn. |
This paper empirically assesses the sequential relationships among firm strategic factors, FDI activity, and economic performance for a sample of U.S.-based Multinational agribusinesses. The most important findings of this research is a positive direct effect of FDI on performance, the complementary effect between FDI and firm strategic factors (positive and significant interaction terms) on performance, and the positive effect of FDI on performance given some thresholds of firm strategic factors. Specifically, it provides insights about the direct effect of FDI on performance, as well as about the joint effect of firm size and FDI, marketing intensity and FDI, and capital intensity and FDI on performance. These findings provide evidence that FDI activity... |
Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Economic performance; Foreign direct investment; Firm strategic factors; Agribusiness; Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; F230; L250. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119763 |
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Ferreira, Gustavo F.C.. |
During the early 1980s Costa Rica experienced its worst economic crisis since World War II, which led to the abandonment of the import substitution model of development adopted in the 1960s. This severe economic downturn also spurred the implementation of a series of new policies supporting foreign investment in high-value-added industries and the diversification of the nation’s exports. As a result, Costa Rica has diversified its economic activity, moved away from its historical dependence on agricultural exports, and gained new competitive advantages in the manufacturing sector. This study presents a straightforward generalization of the model proposed by Herzer and Nowak-Lehnmann’s (2006) to test the hypothesis that export diversification has influenced... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47178 |
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