Product labelling in the market for organic food: Consumer preferences and willingness-to-pay for different organic certification logos

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-22

  Janssen, Meike ^a   Hamm, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer preferences; Credence goods; Organic food; Organic logos; Random parameter logit models; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856070543     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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