The role of certificate issuer on consumers' willingness-to-pay for milk traceability in China

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 44, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 537-544

  Bai, Junfei ^a   Zhang, Caiping ^b   Jiang, Jing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Certificate issuer; Food safety; Traceable milk

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MILK; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CHINA;

EID: 84880160667     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12037     Document Type: Article

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