Consumer interest in meat labelled attributes: Who cares?

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 21-38

  Stranieri, Stefanella ^a   Banterle, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumer economic analysis; Italy; Labelled information; Logit analysis; Meat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955459433     PISSN: 15592448     EISSN: 15592448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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