Consumer valuation of food safety: The case of postharvest processed oysters

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-318

  Bruner, David M ^a   Huth, William L ^b   McEvoy, David M ^a   Morgan, O Ashton ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer perceptions; Experimental auction market; Food safety; Oysters; Risk preference elicitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908278573     PISSN: 10682805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1068280500004330     Document Type: Article

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