TY - BOOK
T1 - A comparative analysis of food demand and its determinants in six EU countries
AU - Irz, Xavier
AU - Caillavet, France
AU - Fadhuile, Adélaïde
AU - Nichèle, Veronique
AU - Castellari, Elena
AU - Moro, Daniele
AU - Quattrone, Giuseppe
AU - Sckokai, Paolo
AU - Varacca, Alessandro
AU - Gil, Jose Maria
AU - Dogbe, Wisdom
AU - Surry, Yves
AU - Kumar Basnet, Shyam
AU - Revoredo-Giha, Cesar Luis
AU - Akaichi, Faical
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
M3 - Other Report
BT - A comparative analysis of food demand and its determinants in six EU countries
ER -