Public concerns about the risk from food hazards have spread in recent years, boosted by a number of well-publicized food scares. As a result, food safety issues are high on the policy agenda in Europe and elsewhere, and a range of policies have been developed to deal with them. The paper illustrates and makes a case for the use of micro-simulation models as support for better economic assessment of food policies. When households deal with food safety issues they can show heterogeneous behaviors, and micro- simulation can provide a useful tool to take into account this heterogeneity. However, to the author’s knowledge, no attempt to use micro-simulation in the analysis of food safety policies has taken place so far. After an illustration of the way economists evaluate food safety policies, micro-simulation methodologies are introduced, stressing their potentiality for the assessment of food safety policies.
Micro-simulation of households: a new tool to assess the impact on society of food safety policies / G. STEFANI. - In: INNOVATION. - ISSN 1351-1610. - STAMPA. - 21(2):(2008), pp. 171-176. [10.1080/13511610802214669]
Micro-simulation of households: a new tool to assess the impact on society of food safety policies
STEFANI, GIANLUCA
2008
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Public concerns about the risk from food hazards have spread in recent years, boosted by a number of well-publicized food scares. As a result, food safety issues are high on the policy agenda in Europe and elsewhere, and a range of policies have been developed to deal with them. The paper illustrates and makes a case for the use of micro-simulation models as support for better economic assessment of food policies. When households deal with food safety issues they can show heterogeneous behaviors, and micro- simulation can provide a useful tool to take into account this heterogeneity. However, to the author’s knowledge, no attempt to use micro-simulation in the analysis of food safety policies has taken place so far. After an illustration of the way economists evaluate food safety policies, micro-simulation methodologies are introduced, stressing their potentiality for the assessment of food safety policies.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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