Consumer preferences and certification of origin: a conjoint analysis on Fontina cheese

Journal title MERCATI E COMPETITIVITÀ
Author/s Garavaglia Christian, Elena Maria Marcoz
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/2 Language Italian
Pages 22 P. 65-86 File size 522 KB
DOI 10.3280/MC2012-002008
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

This paper analyses consumers purchasing decisions when specific information sets occur. In particular, we study the value of PDO certification and its impact on consumer’s preferences and willingness to pay. The results show that the PDO certification has a substantial importance in consumers’ purchasing decisions. As a consequence, consumers recognise a premium price to products with PDO. Finally, we find a dif- ference towards PDO certification evaluation, according to the consumers’ town of residence (Milan or Aosta): the interpretation of this result is related to the difference in the quality guarantee indicator in the two towns, more connected to the origin of the product in Aosta and to the presence of certification in Milan.

Keywords: PDO, food products, conjoint analysis, consumer behavior, typical products.

Garavaglia Christian, Elena Maria Marcoz, Preferenze dei consumatori e certificazioni di origine: un’indagine del caso della fontina tramite la conjoint analysis in "MERCATI E COMPETITIVITÀ" 2/2012, pp 65-86, DOI: 10.3280/MC2012-002008