Sales loss determination in food contamination incidents: an application to milk bans in hawaii

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 513-520

  Smith, Mark E ^a   Ravenswaay, Eileen O ^b   Thompson, Stanley R ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food contamination; Food safety policy; Milk demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959743234     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1241489     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Boehm, William T. “The Household Demand for Fluid Milk in the United States with Regional Consumption Projections Through 1990.” Research Div. Bull. 120, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dec. 1976.
2. Brown, Joseph D. “Effect of a Health Hazard ‘Scare’ on Consumer Demand.” Amer. J. Agr. Econ. 51(1969): 676-78.
3. Budd, Joseph D. “Attention Score: A Device for Measuring News ‘Play’.” Journalism Quart., Spring 1964, pp. 259-62.
4. Cook, Hugh L., et al. The Dairy Subsector of American Agriculture: Organization and Vertical Coordination. N. Cent. Reg. Res. Pub. 257, University of Wisconsin, Nov. 1978.
5. Hamilton, James L. “The Demand for Cigarettes: Advertising, the Health Scare, and the Cigarette Advertising Ban.” Rev. Econ. and Statist. 54(1972):401-11.
6. Hoffer, George E., and A. James Wynne. “Consumer Responses to Auto Recalls.” J. Consumer Affairs 9(1975):212-18.
7. Kinnucan, Henry W. “Media Advertising Effects on Milk Demand: The Case of the Buffalo, New York Market with an Empirical Comparison of Alternative Forms of the Sales Response Equation.” Dep. Agr. Econ. A.E. Res. No. 83-13, Cornell University, Feb. 1983.
8. MacKinnon, James G. “Model Specification Tests Against Non-Nested Alternatives.” Econometric Rev. 2(1983):85-110.
9. Mowen, John C. “Further Information on Consumer Perceptions of Product Recalls.” Advances in Consumer Research, ed. Jerry C. Olson, pp. 519-23. Ann Arbor MI: Association for Consumer Research, 1980.
10. Mowen, John C., and Scott B. Pollman. “An Exploratory Study Investigating Order Effects in Reporting Negative Corporate Communications.” Advances in Consumer Research, ed. Andrew A. Mitchell, pp. 215-20. Ann Arbor MI: Association for Consumer Research, 1982.
11. Renaud, Bertrand M. “The Impact of Economic Growth on the Agricultural Trade Structure of an Island Economy.” Hawaii Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. Bull. No. 150, 1971.
12. Schlenker, Anna, and Paul Christ. “Adjusting In-Area Fluid Milk Sales Data for Calendar Composition.” Mimeographed. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumer and Marketing Serv. 28 Jan. 1971.
13. Schuker, Raymond E., et al. “The Impact of Saccharin Warning Label on Sales of Diet Soft Drinks in Supermarkets.” J. Public Pol. and Mktg. 2(1983): 46-56.
14. Sherrel, Daniel, R. Eric Reidenbach, Ellen Moore, Jay Wagle, and Thaddeus Spratlin. “Exploring Consumer Response to Negative Publicity.” Public Relations Rev. 11(1985): 13-28.
15. Shulstad, Robert N., and Herbert H. Stoevener. “The Effects of Mercury Contamination in Pheasants on the Value of Pheasant Hunting in Oregon.” Land Econ. 54(1978): 39-49.
16. Smith, Mark E. "Consumer Response to Food Contamination: A Case Study of Heptachlor Contamination of Oahu Milk." M.S. thesis, Michigan State University, 1984.
17. Swartz, David G., and Ivar E. Strand. “Avoidance Costs Associated with Imperfect Information: The Case of Kepone.” Land Econ. 57(1981): 139-150.
18. Thompson, S. R., D. A. Eiler, and O. D. Forker. “An Econometric Analysis of Sales Response to Generic Milk Advertising in New York State.” Search, vol. 6, no. 3. Cornell University Agr. Exp. Sta., 1976.
19. Tomek, William G., and Kenneth L. Robinson. Agricultural Product Prices, 2nd ed. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.
20. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dairy Indemnification Program. “Fiscal Year Report of Claims Paid.” Washington DC, 1983 and 1984.
21. Weinberger, Marc G., and William R. Dillon. “The Effects of Unfavorable Product Rating Information.” Advances in Consumer Research, ed. Jerry C. Olson, pp. 528-32. Ann Arbor MI: Association for Consumer Research, 1980.