IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aare11/100725.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Influence of generalized trust on Canadian consumers’ reactions to the perceived food risk of three recurring BSE cases

Author

Listed:
  • Ding, Yulian
  • Veeman, Michele M.
  • Adamowicz, Wiktor L.

Abstract

Interest in the influence of trust on consumers’ responses to food risk perceptions associated with Canadian instances of BSE motivates this study, in which Canadian households’ expenditures on fresh meat are assessed in the context of the first three recurring risk events in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was found to have affected Canadian cows. Engel Curve analysis focusing on the dynamics of the monthly meat expenditure shares for a selected sample of 437 Canadian households for 2002 through 2005 is applied based on data on household expenditures for meat purchased by a national sample of Canadian households from the Nielsen Homescan® Canadian panel, supplemented by survey responses on BSE risk perceptions and measures of trust. Two sets of models are estimated: Engel curves in differences with instruments in levels and Engel curves in levels with instruments in differences. It is found that habit persistence limited households’ reductions of beef purchases following the first BSE event and that that trust limited households’ reduction in beef expenditure shares following the subsequent two BSE cases. Significant seasonal effects and a significant negative influence on beef expenditure shares are also found, consistent with the trend of declining consumption of beef in Canada since the late 1990s.

Suggested Citation

  • Ding, Yulian & Veeman, Michele M. & Adamowicz, Wiktor L., 2011. "Influence of generalized trust on Canadian consumers’ reactions to the perceived food risk of three recurring BSE cases," 2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia 100725, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aare11:100725
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.100725
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100725/files/Veeman%20M.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.100725?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Yulian Ding & Michele M. Veeman & Wiktor L. Adamowicz, 2011. "Habit, BSE, and the Dynamics of Beef Consumption," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 59(3), pages 337-359, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Violet Muringai & Ellen Goddard, 2018. "Trust and consumer risk perceptions regarding BSE and chronic wasting disease," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(2), pages 240-265, March.
    2. Chatterjee, Sheshadri & Mariani, Marcello & Fosso Wamba, Samuel, 2023. "Prosumers’ intention to co-create business value and the moderating role of digital media usage," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    3. Ding, Yulian & Veeman, Michele M. & Adamowicz, Wiktor L., 2013. "The influence of trust on consumer behavior: An application to recurring food risks in Canada," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 214-223.
    4. Rieger, Jörg & Kuhlgatz, Christian & Anders, Sven, 2016. "Food scandals, media attention and habit persistence among desensitised meat consumers," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 82-92.
    5. Yulian Ding & Michele M. Veeman, 2019. "Chinese consumers’ preferences for quality signals on fresh milk: Brand versus certification," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(4), pages 593-609, October.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Consumer/Household Economics;

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aare11:100725. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaresea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.