The taste for variety: A hedonic analysis

Larissa Drescher, Silke Thiele and Christoph Weiss

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 101, issue 1, 66-68

Abstract: This paper derives a hedonic price function for a household's consumption bundle. In a panel-data analysis for households' expenditures on 182 different soft drinks we find that consumers have a preference for variety in food consumption, ceteris paribus.

Keywords: Taste; for; variety; Hedonic; analysis; Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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