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Essays on U.S. organic food trade and credence goods consumption

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Demko, Iryna
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Essays on United States organic food trade and credence goods consumption
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[University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2016.
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1 electronic document
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Jaenicke, Edward C.
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In Chapter 1, we analyze the impact that the bilateral organic equivalency arrangements have on the U.S. trade of organic products. We separately estimate a gravity model for organic exports and imports using products receiving Harmonized System (HS) codes in the USDA Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS). Our analysis covers five years of data beginning 2011, when the HS codes first became available, and employs a negative binomial estimator to account for zeros often present in the trade data. We find that an organic equivalency arrangement between the E.U. and the U.S. increases organic exports to the E.U. by 57.6% each year.In Chapter 2, we use the synthetic control method to investigate the impact of the 2012 bilateral organic equivalency arrangement between the European Union and the United States, the two largest organic markets in the world. Employing the newly available USDA Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS) data on organic trade, we collectively analyze 23 products of U.S. organic exports, representing fresh produce, coffee, and tomato sauce, at the quarterly level during the 2011-2014 period. We find that the policy generates an increase of $149,100, or 9.3%, in the organic exports of these products to the European Union each quarter.In Chapter 3, we investigate the joint roles of advertising and prior purchases in influencing consumers purchases of multivitamins (assumed to be a strong credence good) and compare the estimated results with those from a comparable model examining purchases of over-the-counter headache medicines (assumed to be an experience good). Our results may be useful to explain purchases of organic products as products with credence attributes because consumers may not necessarily differentiate between organic and conventional products even after purchase and use.
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Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2016.
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Microfilm (positive). 1 reel ; 35 mm. (University Microfilms 102-96966)
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