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Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization

ISSN: 1542-0485

Herausgegeben von: Azzeddine Azzam

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Objective
The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide.

As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.

Published in conjunction with the Center for Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization at the University of Nebraska, the Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization is the only international journal devoted solely to theoretical and empirical industrial organization as applied to agricultural and food systems which link input suppliers, farmers, processors, and retailers. All submissions are reviewed by at least one member of the editorial board, which consists of distinguished economists specializing in food and agriculture, and are guaranteed to receive a decision within 10 weeks, with the first review coming within one month.

JAFIO's mission is to provide a peer-reviewed, scholarly, international forum to address this new complexity with the added benefits mentioned above. Through electronic submission, revision, and publication, manuscripts will no longer become obsolete because of lengthy reviews and/or waiting in the print line, as they often do in traditional paper journals.

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I frequently use this journal for my own research and think of it as a very valuable source for teaching and research.
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Topics

Regulatory economics and competition policy
Horizontal and vertical coordination
Mergers and acquisitions
Contracts
Auctions
Product differentiation
Food labeling
Food safety
Cooperatives and strategic alliances
Economics of innovation and property rights
Strategic trade
Market structure and environmental economics
Political economy

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The journal welcomes empirical as well as theoretical articles, notes, and perspectives. It is expected that both empirical and theoretical contributions are issue-driven, informed by the idiosyncrasies of food and agricultural markets, and have practical relevance to firm strategy and/or agricultural and food industry policy.

Submissions addressing issues which arise in specific antitrust cases in food and agricultural industries, or issues which arise in reconciling antitrust laws with modern industrial organization theory, are also welcomed.

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One issue/year, updated continuously
Content available since 2003 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
ISSN: 1542-0485

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Dezember 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 7. Juni 2023

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Seiten: i-ii

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Research Articles

20. Juni 2022

The Economics of Food Courts

Jason Winfree, Connor Allen

Seiten: 99-108

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Abstract

This paper examines food courts, where vendors are competing with each other for a fixed number of consumers. This case may arise when consumers are traveling and patronize a food court, or if the destination is a food court. A contest success function is used to describe consumers’ choices, as well as vendor investment and profitability. Using a contest success function allows for varying degrees of substitution between the vendors. Substitution can be a function of location or product space. The model analyzes revenue sharing and changes in product differentiation when aggregate demand for the food court is fixed. The model is also examined if the food court has a collective reputation that depends upon the average investments of each vendor.

29. Juni 2022

Preferences for the Farmer-Owned Label: Evidence from Cheese Consumers in the United States

Jasper Grashuis

Seiten: 109-116

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Driven by external developments like industry consolidation and price volatility, organized farm producers seek opportunities to generate rent in the value-added segment of the agri-food industry. Given inherent constraints with cost efficiency and product quality, farm producer organizations (FPOs) may use branding to pursue differentiation. An opportunity is facilitated by the farmer-owned label, which constitutes an ownership signal to consumers. However, empirical evidence of the economic viability of the farmer-owned label is limited. Following a choice experiment with 296 cheese consumers in the United States, we specify a random parameter logit model and find a positive willingness-to-pay for the farmer-owned label which is in excess of private and corporate brands in the same product category. In the final model, the mean willingness-to-pay is estimated at $1.74. While the farmer-owned label is proven to be economically viable in a competitive product category, consumer preferences are heterogeneous. Also, there is no compatibility between the farmer-owned label and indicators of family ownership and product origin.

7. Oktober 2020

Restaurant Tipping Discrimination: Evidence from a Representative Sample of US Households

Nusrat Jahan, Andrea Leschewski, David E. Davis

Seiten: 117-127

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Discrimination in tipping creates concerns of inequity in service quality for restaurant operators (Brewster 2017). We use the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey data to conduct one of the very few nationally representative examinations of tipping behavior at US restaurants. We focus on differences in tipping behavior between groups with identifiable characteristics and investigate whether tipping differences between groups are robust to inclusion of a variety of controls. We investigate tipping at the extensive and intensive margins. In contrast to earlier studies, we find little evidence that tipping varies by race and gender.

Review

Open Access 20. Juni 2022

Relevant Attributes Influencing Consumers’ Tomato Acceptance: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Maria Elena Latino, Marta Menegoli, Angelo Corallo

Seiten: 129-146

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During the last two decades several studies were developed to understand the attributes able to affect consumer vegetable choice over the world. Focusing on fresh and processed tomato product, this study proposes a systematic literature review to systematize and critically apprise the current body of knowledge in this research field. In order to discover suggestions useful to enhance market strategies and policies about vegetable intake, the discovered tomato attributes were categorized, according the Search Experience and Credence logic, into: price, product features, packaging, convenience, brand, sensory properties, sustainability, origin, safety and health, production processes. By synthesizing the review findings, a multi-dimensional integrative content framework was conceived with the aim to maps the extant literature with multiple levels of analysis: antecedent, phenomenon and consequences. As part of the review, a future research agenda, theoretical and practical implications were discussed.

Research Articles

29. Juni 2022

The Drivers of the Nutritional Quality and Carbon Footprint of School Menus in the Paris Area

Pierre Chiaverina, Emmanuel Raynaud, Marie Fillâtre, Sophie Nicklaus, Valentin Bellassen

Seiten: 147-169

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Public school food procurement has been identified as a key lever in the transition towards sustainable food systems. In this study, we assess the nutritional quality and the carbon footprint of 2020 school menus served in 101 municipalities in the inner suburbs of Paris. In this sample, school canteens menus meet an average 8.2/15 (min = 4, max = 14) adequacy score to the regulatory nutritional quality frequency criteria and their carbon footprint averages at 1.9 (min = 1.2, max = 2.6) kgCO 2 e/day. The nutritional and environmental qualities of canteen menus were not correlated with each other. In-house canteens have a significantly higher nutritional quality – 0.7 more points – and so do larger canteens. The carbon footprint significantly decreases with an increasing education level of the population and, for in-house canteens, it also decreases by 0.16 kgCO 2 e/day with a ten-fold increase in canteen size and by 0.0035 kgCO 2 e/day per percent of left-wing vote, breaking even with delegated canteens above 3500 enrolled children and 53% of left-wing vote respectively. The frequency of certified food (mean = 18%, min = 0%, max = 51%), a cornerstone of the 2018 national law aiming at more sustainable institutional catering, has no impact on our indicators of nutritional quality and carbon footprint. The substantial variations between canteens in both nutritional and environmental qualities suggests that there is room for improvement on both ends.

20. Juni 2022

Private Labels Strategy, Retail Profitability and Bargaining Power in the Fluid Milk Market

Xuan Chen, Yizao Liu

Seiten: 171-182

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This paper studies the competition between private labels and the role of private labels in determining the bargaining outcomes between retailers and manufacturers as well as retailer profitability in the fluid milk market. We differentiate private labels from different retailers and develop a structural model of demand and a Nash-in-Nash vertical bargaining model of supply. Using 2004–2011 Nielsen Homescan data at monthly-county level, we estimated the average bargaining power of retailers and how various factors influence their bargaining power with a random-coefficient discrete choice model of demand. With the full bargaining model specification, this paper then conducts simulations to isolate the role of private label in bargaining and retailer profitability, comparing the effectiveness of alternative private label strategies. Results indicate private label milk from different retailers are close competitors and retailers have more bargaining power than manufacturers. Further, factors such as the manufacturer size, private label share, and their private label position can significantly affect retailers’ bargaining power. Moreover, the counterfactual analysis shows that lowering private label prices and other private label strategies such as private label program expansion and retailer advertising could not only increase their profitability but also allow retailers to benefit from the bargaining with manufacturers.

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CiteScore	1.9	2022, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2023)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.327	2022, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2023; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.278	2022, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2023; Data Source: Scopus)

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Editors
Azzeddine Azzam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; USA

Editorial Assistant
Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; USA

Associate Editors
Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University; USA
John Crespi, Iowa State University; USA
Panagiotis Fousekis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki; Greece
Jean-Philippe Gervais, Farm Credit; Canada
Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; USA
David Hennessy, Iowa State University; USA
Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin-Madison; USA
Jayson Lusk, Purdue University; USA
Philippe Marcoul, University of Alberta; Canada
Dimitrios Panagiotou, University of Ioannina; Greece
Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University; USA
John R. Schroeter, Iowa State University; USA
Khalid Sekkat, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Belgium
Kyle Stiegert, University of Wisconsin-Madison; USA
Jim Vercammen, University of British Columbia; Canada
Sofia Berto Villas-Boas, University of California-Berkeley; USA
Tian Xia, Kansas State University; USA
Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; USA
Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University; USA
Christine Zulehner, University of Vienna; Austria

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Hans Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Sweden
Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan; Canada
Stephen Martin, Purdue University; USA
GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University; USA
Jeffrey Perloff, University of California-Berkeley; USA
Jeffrey Royer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; USA
Richard Sexton, University of California-Davis; USA
Ian Sheldon, Ohio State University; USA

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Online ISSN: 1542-0485
Print ISSN: 2194-5896
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 2003
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: theoretical and empirical researchers, as well as policy makers, suppliers, farmers, processors, and retailers