Consumer willingness to pay for organic fresh milk in Taiwan

China Agricultural Economic Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 198-211

  Huang, Chin Huang ^a   Lee, Chun Hung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SPORT   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CVM; Double bounded dichotomous choice; Food quality; Organic food; Survival function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902770702     PISSN: 1756137X     EISSN: 17561388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CAER-04-2012-0033     Document Type: Article

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