The effects of prior beliefs and learning on consumers' acceptance of genetically modified foods

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 193-206

  Huffman, Wallace E ^a   Rousu, Matthew ^a   Shogren, Jason F ^a   Tegene, Abebayehu ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumers; Diverse information; Food labels; Laboratory experiments; Learning; nth Price auction; Prior beliefs; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847132282     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.04.019     Document Type: Article

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