A comparative analysis of food demand and its determinants in six EU countries

Xavier Irz, France Caillavet, Adélaïde Fadhuile, Veronique Nichèle (), Elena Castellari (), Daniele Moro, Quattrone, Giuseppe, Paolo Sckokai, Varacca Alessandro, J.M. Gil, Dogbe Wisdom, Yves Surry (), Shyam Kumar Basnet, Cesar Revoredo-Giha and Akaichi, Faical
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France Caillavet: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Veronique Nichèle: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Daniele Moro: Unicatt - Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Brescia]
Quattrone, Giuseppe: Unicatt - Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Brescia]
Varacca Alessandro: Unicatt - Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore [Brescia]
J.M. Gil: CREDA - CREDA - Centre de Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentaris
Dogbe Wisdom: CREDA - CREDA - Centre de Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentaris
Yves Surry: SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Shyam Kumar Basnet: SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Akaichi, Faical: SRUC - Scotland's Rural College

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Abstract: This cross-country investigation of food demand and its determinants confirmed a number of stylized facts: first, consumers respond to prices and the law of demand applies to all foods at a fairly high level of product disaggregation; second, most food products are necessities, as their demand responds positively but less than proportionally to changes in consumption expenditure, implying that Engle's law is also ve-rified in all countries; third, for all countries, some cross-price elasticities are both statistically significant and relatively large, which confirms the necessity of considering whole diets rather than only subsets of foods when analyzing policies to enhance the sustainability of food consumption patterns. Beyond those well-known regularities, however, the analysis indicates that demand relationships remain highly specific to each country.

Keywords: Food demand; Consumer choice; Consumer preference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in SUSDIET Newsletter, 2017, 7, pp.8

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