Processor's preferences and basic differentiation strategies for potatoes, milk, and wheat in Switzerland

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Boesch, Irene ^a   Weber, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conjoint analysis; Differentiation; Hierarchical Bayes estimation; Preference

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84879087671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1542-0485.1377     Document Type: Article

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