Consumers' willingness to pay for conventional, organic and functional yogurt: evidence from experimental auctions
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- Riccardo Vecchio, Ellen Van Loo (UGent) and Azzurra Annunziata
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- This research is aimed at investigating consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for conventional, organic and functional yogurts in two different information treatments. The basic information treatment provided respondents with yogurts labelled conventional, organic or functional while the second treatment included additional information. To elicit values for these specific products, 100 Italian consumers participated in an experimental auction using the Vickrey fifth-price sealed-bid mechanism. Findings reveal that providing additional information through a specific health claim increases consumer's perceived value of the functional yogurt, while for the organic counterpart additional information on organic regulation does not add much to the premium. Moreover, our study shows that specific socio-demographic variables (as gender, age, presence of kids in the household and the need to follow a specific diet) positively affect WTP for functional and organic yogurts.
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- yogurt: functional food, organic food, Willingness-to-pay, experimental auctions, FOOD CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRE, PERCEIVED HEALTHINESS, PRODUCTS, MARKET, INFORMATION, PERCEPTION, VALUATION, NUTRITION, CONJOINT, NUTRACEUTICALS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-7205587
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- Vecchio, Riccardo, Ellen Van Loo, and Azzurra Annunziata. “Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Conventional, Organic and Functional Yogurt: Evidence from Experimental Auctions.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES 40.3 (2016): 368–378. Print.
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- Vecchio, R., Van Loo, E., & Annunziata, A. (2016). Consumers’ willingness to pay for conventional, organic and functional yogurt: evidence from experimental auctions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, 40(3), 368–378.
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- Vecchio, Riccardo, Ellen Van Loo, and Azzurra Annunziata. 2016. “Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Conventional, Organic and Functional Yogurt: Evidence from Experimental Auctions.” International Journal of Consumer Studies 40 (3): 368–378.
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- Vecchio, Riccardo, Ellen Van Loo, and Azzurra Annunziata. 2016. “Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Conventional, Organic and Functional Yogurt: Evidence from Experimental Auctions.” International Journal of Consumer Studies 40 (3): 368–378.
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- 1.Vecchio R, Van Loo E, Annunziata A. Consumers’ willingness to pay for conventional, organic and functional yogurt: evidence from experimental auctions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES. 2016;40(3):368–78.
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- [1]R. Vecchio, E. Van Loo, and A. Annunziata, “Consumers’ willingness to pay for conventional, organic and functional yogurt: evidence from experimental auctions,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 368–378, 2016.
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abstract = {{This research is aimed at investigating consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for conventional, organic and functional yogurts in two different information treatments. The basic information treatment provided respondents with yogurts labelled conventional, organic or functional while the second treatment included additional information. To elicit values for these specific products, 100 Italian consumers participated in an experimental auction using the Vickrey fifth-price sealed-bid mechanism. Findings reveal that providing additional information through a specific health claim increases consumer's perceived value of the functional yogurt, while for the organic counterpart additional information on organic regulation does not add much to the premium. Moreover, our study shows that specific socio-demographic variables (as gender, age, presence of kids in the household and the need to follow a specific diet) positively affect WTP for functional and organic yogurts.}},
author = {{Vecchio, Riccardo and Van Loo, Ellen and Annunziata, Azzurra}},
issn = {{1470-6423}},
journal = {{INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES}},
keywords = {{yogurt: functional food,organic food,Willingness-to-pay,experimental auctions,FOOD CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRE,PERCEIVED HEALTHINESS,PRODUCTS,MARKET,INFORMATION,PERCEPTION,VALUATION,NUTRITION,CONJOINT,NUTRACEUTICALS}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{368--378}},
title = {{Consumers' willingness to pay for conventional, organic and functional yogurt: evidence from experimental auctions}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12264}},
volume = {{40}},
year = {{2016}},
}
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