Taste or reputation: What drives market prices in the wine industry? Estimation of a hedonic model for Italian premium wines

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2197-2209

  Benfratello, Luigi ^a,b   Piacenza, Massimiliano ^a,b   Sacchetto, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Ceris CNR   (Italy)

^c LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEDONIC ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE; METHODOLOGY; MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ITALY;

EID: 78649708477     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701222439     Document Type: Article

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