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| Ding, Yulian; Veeman, Michele M.; Adamowicz, Wiktor L.. |
| This study relates habit persistence and trust to recurring food safety incidents in the context of a series of three BSE incidents in Canada. We examined the dynamics of monthly beef expenditure shares of a sample of Canadian households for monthly time periods during year 2002 through 2005 using micro level panel data which followed meat expenditures by Canadian households before and after the first three BSE cases which were discovered in 2003 and 2005. Our results suggest that households’ reactions to the first three BSE events followed a similar general pattern: households reduced beef purchase expenditures following the discovery of BSE but these expenditures subsequently recovered, suggesting that concern diminished over time. Following the first... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: BSE; Habit; And trust; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49284 |
