Do consumers really refuse to buy genetically modified food?

Economic Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 492, 2004, Pages 102-120

  Noussair, Charles ^a   Robin, Stéphane ^a   Ruffieux, Bernard ^b  

^a INP Grenoble ENSGI   (France)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0842301391     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0013-0133.2003.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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