A Modern Guide to Food Economics

Edited by Jutta Roosen, Technical University of Munich, Germany and Jill E. Hobbs, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Contents:

Introduction to A Modern Guide to Food Economics 1
Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs

PART I CHANGES IN THE FOOD SYSTEM
1 The economics of food systems 7
David Zilberman
2 The supplier–retailer relationship in contemporary food markets 23
Alessandro Bonanno and Metin .akır
3 Product differentiation in food 47
Jill J. McCluskey and Jason A. Winfree
4 Technical regulation of agri-food trade 62
David Orden, Caesar B. Cororaton and Khadija Rouchdi

PART II CHALLENGES WITH REGARD TO
SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH
5 The economics of the nutrition and sustainable diet transition 89
Xavier Irz and Mario Mazzocchi
6 Health-oriented nutrition policies 113
Jill E. Hobbs and Jutta Roosen
7 The economics of food loss and waste 144
Brenna Ellison and Mary K. Muth
8 Food safety and traceability 170
James Mitchell, Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor

PART III DEVELOPMENTS IN METHODS AND DATA
9 Behavioural economics, policy interventions and food 193
David R. Just
10 Discrete choice models and continuous demand systems in the
scanner data age 215
Beatrice Biondi, Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi
11 Recent developments in inference: practicalities for applied
economics
235
Jeffrey D. Michler and Anna Josephson

PART IV NEW ISSUES
12 Who reacts to food taxes? How a multiple-selves model
can help to explain the effects of food taxes 270
Sinne Smed, Chiara Lombardini and Leena Lankoski
13 Food, beverages, and social media: trends and tools
for economic research 297
Sean B. Cash, Saleem Alhabash, Gabriela Fretes and
Mengyan Ma
14 How the use of genomics may continue to influence consumer
behaviour 327
Ellen Goddard

Index 352