Abstract The modern era of wine journalism has provided abundant information about wines and widespread use numerical rating systems. A tiny difference, especially at the top distribution ratings, may have striking consequences on sales investment returns. This article provides a general framework to obtain consensus among tasters’ opinions (reflected as ratings) via three subsequent stages: no...

Abstract This article documents how the COVID-19 crisis has affected drinking behavior of Latin European wine consumers. Using a large online survey conducted during first lockdown in France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain ( n = 7,324 individuals), we reconstruct purchasing consumption patterns respondents. The number people who maintained their frequency is significantly higher than those increase...

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyze the differences in size maxillary and mandibular dental arch between Papuan males females. Materials Methods: An analytical cross-sectional design carried out 12 females aged above 18–25 years Surabaya. Raberin method used measure arches width cast transversal (L33, L66, L77) sagittal direction (L31, L61, L71). statistical analysis data normality by Kol...

The introduction of new products is an important method of competition in many markets. Towards understanding its impact on competition and welfare, this paper estimates the effects of Crystal Pepsi being introduced by PepsiCo. Estimating a structural model of the soft drink market, the competitive effect is decomposed into two parts: the effect on the prices of existing products from increased...

Abstract Firms rely on brand names to market goods consumers, and consumers locate that satisfy their preferences. If multiple firms are using the same or similar names, may be confused about which product buy, not obtain benefits of investments in quality. Recently, both scholars a number industries have expressed concern name congestion—too many clustering around too few terms. This paper app...

the study examines the relationship between the size of firms and their growth in iranian food and beverages industries. the study utilizes iranian industrial data, classified on the base of isic with 4-digit code. the study evaluates the validity of gibrat's law in the selected firms. the validity of the law has been examined by two methods. first, the panel analysis is applied and second...

Abstract The Italian market of sparkling wines increases as volume and assortment (such brands, appellations, typologies) mainly because Prosecco consumption. We investigate the repeated purchase behavior in two years within supermarket channel through scanner data collected from a consumer panel. propose Hidden Markov Model to analyze these data, assuming an unobservable process capture consum...

The aim of this contribution is to study empirically the effect of trade liberalization on productivity growth exploiting a large micro-dataset of more than 20,000 French and Italian food firms, over the 2004-2012 period. This relationship has been studied focusing on import penetration at both industry and upstream sectors level, to investigate the role played by imports in intermediate inputs...