Impact of food contamination on brands: A demand systems estimation of peanut butter

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-339

  Bakhtavoryan, Rafael ^a   Capps, Oral ^a   Salin, Victoria ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2007 Peter Pan recall; Demand system models; Food safety; Scanner data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874611885     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500001295     Document Type: Article

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