@article{Ding:100725,
      recid = {100725},
      author = {Ding, Yulian and Veeman, Michele M. and Adamowicz, Wiktor  L.},
      title = {Influence of generalized trust on Canadian consumers’  reactions to the perceived food risk of three recurring BSE  cases},
      address = {2011},
      number = {422-2016-26938},
      pages = {25},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Interest in the influence of trust on consumers’ responses  to food risk perceptions associated with
Canadian instances  of BSE motivates this study, in which Canadian households’  expenditures on
fresh meat are assessed in the context of  the first three recurring risk events in which  bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was found to have  affected Canadian cows. Engel Curve
analysis focusing on  the dynamics of the monthly meat expenditure shares for a  selected sample
of 437 Canadian households for 2002 through  2005 is applied based on data on household
expenditures for  meat purchased by a national sample of Canadian households  from the Nielsen
Homescan® Canadian panel, supplemented by  survey responses on BSE risk perceptions and
measures of  trust. Two sets of models are estimated: Engel curves in  differences with instruments
in levels and Engel curves in  levels with instruments in differences. It is found that  habit
persistence limited households’ reductions of beef  purchases following the first BSE event and
that that trust  limited households’ reduction in beef expenditure shares  following the subsequent
two BSE cases. Significant  seasonal effects and a significant negative influence on  beef
expenditure shares are also found, consistent with the  trend of declining consumption of beef in
Canada since the  late 1990s.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100725},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.100725},
}