Certification labels versus convenience formats: What drives the market in aquaculture products?

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 295-310

  Carlucci, Domenico ^a   De Devitiis, Biagia ^b   Nardone, Gianluca ^b,c   Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c Apulian Department of Agriculture   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumer; Convenience; Discrete choice; Ecolabels; Fishery; Italy; LCM; Oyster; RPLM; Seafood

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013326040     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/692091     Document Type: Article

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