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Stated Preference Approaches for Measuring Passive Use Values: Choice Experiments versus Contingent Valuation
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Boxall, Peter C., Williams, Michael, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Louviere, Jordan J.
The measurement of passive use values has become an important element of environmental economics over the past decade. Damage assessment cases in the U.S. and Canada have prompted considerable research activity in this area, yet the topic is quite controversial and debate over the theory and...
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1994
Williams, Michael, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre, Boxall, Peter C., Louviere, Jordan J.
Contingent valuation (CV) has been employed by economists for approximately 30 years to value changes in natural resources and environments. Estimating the value of resource improvements or damages is analogous to the problem in marketing research of estimating the demand for new products or...
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2007
Jeffrey, Scott, Yang, Danyi, Unterschultz, Jim
This study is a statistical overview of acres, yields, and prices for major field crops in western Canada. The period of study is from 1908 to 2006. The field crops considered in this study are wheat, rye, barley, oats, canola, flax, and summer fallow. The provinces covered in this study are...
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1996
This paper derives a set of linear and nonlinear restrictions to make a n-goods linear almost ideal demand system (AIDS) symmetric when all prices are allowed to vary. When prices are scaled by their means, the conventional restricitons are sufficient to make the linear AIDS symmetric at mean....
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1992
The demand for meat in Canada is examined in a manner similar to previous work by Chen and Veeman, Moschini and Meilke, and Reynolds and Goddard. The current effort differs from previous studies in two important ways. First, beef demand is disaggregated into ground beef and table cut beef. This...
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The Demand for Food Safety: An Empirical Analysis of Preferences for Pesticide and Hormone Regulation by Alberta Consumers
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Veeman, Michele M., Kuperis, Peter, Hrudey, Steve, Adamowicz, Wiktor
The safety of food is a continuing concern for consumers. A Consumer's Association of Canada survey found that 25% of consumers \"worry a lot\" about food safety. When asked about specific food safety issues, 42% indicated pesticides as a major source of concern. Pollution, preservatives and...
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The Economics of a Regulated Dairy Market: An Empirical Analysis of Factors Determining the Value of Fluid Milk Quota
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Veeman, Michele M., Dong, Xizo-yuan
Based on the hypothesis that tradeable marketing quotas may be analysed as an economic input in the production process of regulated firms, the standard capital asset pricing model is adapted to assess the impact of expectations of quota rents on Ontario fluid milk quota values. The analysis...
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The Effect of Choice Environment and Task Demands on Consumer Behavior: Discriminating Between Contribution and Confusion
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Swait, Joffre, Adamowicz, Wiktor
Choices, whether they are made in actual markets (revealed preferences or RP) or in surveys (stated preference of SP), provide information about the preferences of individuals. These choices also contain what researchers interpret as \"noise\" or unexplained variation; a variety of techniques...
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The Effects of Alternative Agriculture and Fair Trade on the Development of Producer Groups and Their Members: Case Studies from Northern Thailand
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Adamowicz, Wiktor, Renner, Miriam
This study examines the economic, social and environmental effects of alternative agricultural methods, traded through fair trade mechanisms, on producers in northern Thailand. These effects are compared with those of conventional agriculture and practised on the same farm). The chosen research...