Does organic crowding out influence organic food demand? evidence from a Danish micro panel
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Does organic crowding out influence organic food demand? evidence from a Danish micro panel. / Hansen, Lars Gårn; Andersen, Laura Mørch.
Frederiksberg : Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2013. p. 1-42.Research output: Working paper › Research
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T1 - Does organic crowding out influence organic food demand?
T2 - evidence from a Danish micro panel
AU - Hansen, Lars Gårn
AU - Andersen, Laura Mørch
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - All Previous studies of organic food demand that investigating substitution focus on specific food submarkets and have to assume separability from other food consumption. However, consumers typically associate attributes such as e.g. healthiness and environment friendliness with organic variants of most types of food. If such general organic attributes are important for consumer behaviour then separability may not hold because the general attribute obtained from one type of organic food may be a close or even perfect substitute for the same attribute obtained from other types of organic food. In this paper we utilize a unique Danish micro panel where all food demand is registered on a disaggregated level with an organic/nonorganic indicator to estimate a general food demand system with organic variants. We clearly reject the usual separability assumption and find that the behaviour of Danish consumers is consistent with them perceiving such general organic attributes. In addition estimation of a general demand system makes calculation of economy wide organic price elasticities and other insights into the structure of organic food demand possible.
AB - All Previous studies of organic food demand that investigating substitution focus on specific food submarkets and have to assume separability from other food consumption. However, consumers typically associate attributes such as e.g. healthiness and environment friendliness with organic variants of most types of food. If such general organic attributes are important for consumer behaviour then separability may not hold because the general attribute obtained from one type of organic food may be a close or even perfect substitute for the same attribute obtained from other types of organic food. In this paper we utilize a unique Danish micro panel where all food demand is registered on a disaggregated level with an organic/nonorganic indicator to estimate a general food demand system with organic variants. We clearly reject the usual separability assumption and find that the behaviour of Danish consumers is consistent with them perceiving such general organic attributes. In addition estimation of a general demand system makes calculation of economy wide organic price elasticities and other insights into the structure of organic food demand possible.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - IFRO Working Paper
SP - 1
EP - 42
BT - Does organic crowding out influence organic food demand?
PB - Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
CY - Frederiksberg
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