Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya
How can food safety be provided in the absence of regulatory enforcement? What can explain heterogeneous responses to unenforced regulation across firms when certain food safety characteristics are unobservable to the consumer? Using data from over 900 maize flour samples representing 23 distinct br...
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2014
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| author | Moser, Christine Hoffmann, Vivian Ordonez, Romina |
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| description | How can food safety be provided in the absence of regulatory enforcement? What can explain heterogeneous responses to unenforced regulation across firms when certain food safety characteristics are unobservable to the consumer? Using data from over 900 maize flour samples representing 23 distinct brands in eastern and central Kenya, this paper explores the relationship between price, brand and aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxin is a toxin common in maize, groundnuts and other crops around the world and, while it is unobservable to the consumer, it may be correlated with other quality characteristics. We find a strong negative correlation between price and contamination rates, which is consistent with certain brands investing more in quality to avoid loss of reputational capital. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1493892025-11-06T05:42:25Z Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya Moser, Christine Hoffmann, Vivian Ordonez, Romina brand capital maize food safety aflatoxins markets How can food safety be provided in the absence of regulatory enforcement? What can explain heterogeneous responses to unenforced regulation across firms when certain food safety characteristics are unobservable to the consumer? Using data from over 900 maize flour samples representing 23 distinct brands in eastern and central Kenya, this paper explores the relationship between price, brand and aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxin is a toxin common in maize, groundnuts and other crops around the world and, while it is unobservable to the consumer, it may be correlated with other quality characteristics. We find a strong negative correlation between price and contamination rates, which is consistent with certain brands investing more in quality to avoid loss of reputational capital. 2014 2024-08-01T02:49:19Z 2024-08-01T02:49:19Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149389 en Open Access application/pdf Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Moser, Christine; Hoffmann, Vivian; and Ordonez, Romina. 2014. Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s 2014 AAEA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 27-29, 2014. Milwaukee, WI, USA: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). https://purl.umn.edu/170588 |
| spellingShingle | brand capital maize food safety aflatoxins markets Moser, Christine Hoffmann, Vivian Ordonez, Romina Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya |
| title | Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya |
| title_full | Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya |
| title_short | Firm heterogeneity in food safety provision: Evidence from aflatoxin tests in Kenya |
| title_sort | firm heterogeneity in food safety provision evidence from aflatoxin tests in kenya |
| topic | brand capital maize food safety aflatoxins markets |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149389 |
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