Platania, Marco (author) and Privitera, Donatella (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Italy
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29847
Notes:
Pages 121-138 in Adam Lindgreen, Martin K. Hingley and Joelle Vanhamme (eds.), The crisis of food brands: sustaining safe, innovative and competitive food supply. Gower Publishing Limited, Surrey, England. 352 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D02471
Notes:
Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's AAEA and CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Washington,D.C., August 4-6, 2013. 43 pages.
19 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Authors tested food label and information treatment effects on subjects' willingness-to-pay for organic, "natural," and conventional foods. They found large information effects, including asymmetric cross-market effects for natural and organic foods. Organic premiums increased in response to subjects' seeing the "natural" foods industry's perspective on its products.