식품 안전도 관련 정보가 소비자 후생에 미치는 영향: BSE 보도 사례를 중심으로

• 영문명: Impact of Food Safety Information on Consumers’ Welfare: the Case of BSE Reports
• 발행기관: 한국농식품정책학회
• 저자명: 허정회(Jeonghoi Heo)
• 간행물 정보: 『농업경영.정책연구』50권 4호, 685~702쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 자연과학 > 생활/식품과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.12.31

국문 초록

Although additional information is usually assumed beneficial, information sometimes misleads consumers and causes negative effects. Consumers’ purchasing behavior are based on the information they have, and thus they fail to optimally consume commodities when they have incorrect information. Excessive media reports on food contamination incidents lead to the unnecessary reduction of related goods and result in consumers’ welfare loss. The purpose of this study is to analyze consumers’ welfare loss that resulted from being unable to optimally consume meats because of imperfect information that there might be BSE contaminated beef in Korea in 2001. The results show that a consumer suffers monthly welfare loss of between 7 and 4,409 won due to unnecessary reduction of beef consumption as a result of imperfect information. This welfare loss is referred to as ‘cost of ignorance’ or value of information.

목차

Ⅰ. 서 론

Ⅱ. 선행연구

Ⅲ. 이론적 분석틀

Ⅳ. 분석모형과 이용 자료

Ⅴ. 분석 결과

Ⅵ. 요약 및 결론

참고문헌

키워드

Food Safety Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Cost of Ignorance Value of Information