Market segmentation via mixed logit: Extra-virgin olive oil in Urban Italy

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 141-160

  Scarpa, Riccardo ^a   Gludice, Teresa Del ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Certification; Choice experiments; Extra virgin olive oil; Labelling; Market segments; Organic food; PDO PGI; Preference heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944381670     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1080     Document Type: Article

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