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Relating Consumer Willingness‐to‐Pay for Food Safety to Risk Tolerance: An Experimental Approach
Author(s) -
Brown Jennifer,
Cranfield John A. L.,
Henson Spencer
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.2005.00356.x
Subject(s) - food safety , willingness to pay , bidding , risk perception , business , common value auction , food safety risk analysis , marketing , actuarial science , perception , risk analysis (engineering) , psychology , economics , medicine , microeconomics , pathology , neuroscience
This study investigates the role of risk tolerance in shaping Canadian consumers' willingness‐to‐pay for food safety risk reductions. Non‐hypothetical experimental auctions were used to elicit consumer valuations of food safety improvement. To identify the relationship between food safety concern and risk‐reduction valuations, individual risk‐perception scores are constructed based on questionnaire responses. Results show willingness‐to‐pay for improved food safety tends to decrease as individuals become more risk tolerant. Differences in bids across naïve and informed rounds of bidding tend to become smaller with risk tolerance for individuals who initially overestimated the food safety risk.