Valuing Consumer Preferences with the CUB Model: A CaseStudy of Fair Trade Coffee

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-93

  Cicia, Gianni ^a   Corduas, Marcella ^a   Del Giudice, Teresa ^a   Piccolo, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

CUB model; fair trade cofee; latent class choice model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103706973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18696945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18461/ijfsd.v1i1.119     Document Type: Article

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