Price determinants in top-quality e-auctioned specialty coffees

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-276

  Donnet, M Laura ^a   Weatherspoon, Dave D ^b   Hoehn, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiated food pricing; Hedonic price analysis; Reputation attributes; Sensory attributes; Specialty coffee

Indexed keywords

COFFEE; COMMODITY PRICE; FOOD MARKET; FOOD QUALITY; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DETERMINATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 43549087361     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2008.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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