Retail Meat Feature Pricing: Enhancing Meat-Case Revenues?

Retail meat managers have many pricing tools to encourage product purchase, including the feature price, syndicate price, and the percent discount. Given seasonal demands and a large, diverse set of meat cuts, meat managers may form strategic pricing groups when choosing the feature-price, syndicate-price, and percent-discount levels. This research inductively determines these groups using a principal-components method and examines the role feature pricing plays in determining the volume sold and syndicate price. Seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) models are used to simultaneously estimate the impacts of featuring strategy decisions among cluster groups.Demand and Price Analysis,

The Value of Career and Technical Education in Addressing College and Career Readiness and The Ill-Prepared Workforce: A Study of the Perceptions of Community College Administrators and Instructors; District High School Administrators, and Guidance Counselors, and CTE Department; and a Workforce Employer in North Carolina

This study examined the perceptions of community college administrators and instructors; district high school administrators, guidance counselors, and CTE department; and a workforce employer of the value of career and technical education. This study also examined the historical and present perceptions of the district- and state-level officials regarding career and technical education and its ability to address the issue of an ill-prepared workforce and college readiness. Data were collected from several sources. Quantitative data were collected in the form of questionnaires to administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and a workforce employer in North Carolina. The quantitative data can be used to determine the needs of the local employers and to gain perceptions of community college administrators and instructors; district high school administrators, guidance counselors, and CTE department; and a workforce employer as they pertain to the preparedness of students to be college and career ready

Animal Disease Economic Impacts: A Survey of Literature and Typology of Research Approaches

Animal diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are a threat to the animal product marketing sector and the broader economy. Policy makers and industry stakeholders seek a means of assessing a disease threat's economic impacts when evaluating prevention and mitigation measures. But, differences in the focus of the impact analysis (production level, market prices, welfare), level of analysis (geographically, marketing phase) and proposed policy alternatives all influence the analytical approach. This paper surveys previous research, focusing on methodological approaches and results. Drawing from past research and future economic data needs, a typology is developed to guide researchers when defining the scope and policy alternatives of various research approaches.Animal disease economics, Literature review, Marketing channel, Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing,

Consumer Responses to Recent BSE Events

Recent bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, a.k.a. mad cow disease) discoveries in Canadian and U.S. beef cattle have garnered significant media attention, which may have changed consumers’ meat-purchasing behavior. Consumer response is hypothesized and tested within a meat demand system in which response is measured using single-period dummy variables, longer-term dummy variables, and media indices that count positive and negative meat-industry articles. Parameters are estimated using retail scanner data, and cross-species price elasticities are calculated. Results suggest that the BSE events negatively impacted ground beef and chuck roasts, while positively impacting center-cut pork chop demand. Dummy variables explained the variation in meat-budget shares better than did media indices.Consumer/Household Economics,

Pengaruh Literasi Keuangan Syariah Dan Religiusitas Terhadap Minat Masyarakat Menggunakan Jasa Perbankan Syariah (Studi Pada Masyarakat Desa Kroya Kecamatan Panguragan Kabupaten Cirebon)

MIMIN KAMINA. NIM: 1708203027, “PENGARUH LITERASI KEUANGAN SYARIAH DAN RELIGIUSITAS TERHADAP MINAT MASYARAKAT MENGGUNAKAN JASA PERBANKAN SYARIAH (STUDI PADA MASYARAKAT DESA KROYA KECAMATAN PANGURAGAN KABUPATEN CIREBON)”, 2021. Minat menggunakan jasa perbankan syariah merupakan kecenderungan dan ketertarikan seseorang pada suatu produk ataupun jasa perbankan syariah yang tidak didahului oleh perintah dari pihak lain. Terdapat beberapa faktor yang dapat mempengaruhi minat, diantaranya yaitu literasi keuangan syariah dan religiusitas. Literasi keuangan syariah adalah kecakapan atau kesanggupan seseorang dalam hal pemahaman dan penerapan keuangan yang dibutuhkan dalam kehidupan sesuai dengan nilai-nilai agama Islam. Religiusitas adalah suatu keadaan yang terdapat dalam diri individu yang mendorongnya untuk bertingkah laku sesuai dengan kadar ketaatannya terhadap Agama. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui ada tidaknya pengaruh literasi keuangan syariah dan religiusitas terhadap minat masyarakat menggunakan jasa perbankan syariah. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode kuantitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui kuesioner. Populasi dalam penelitian ini yaitu masyarakat Desa Kroya Kecamatan Panguragan Kabupaten Cirebon yang berjumlah 100 responden. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan yaitu analisis deskriptif, analisis statistik berupa uji validitas, uji reliabilitas, uji asumsi kalsik, uji regresi linear berganda, uji hipotesis berupa uji t (parsial) dan uji F (simultan), dan uji koefisien determinasi (R2) dengan menggunakan aplikasi SPSS versi 23. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan literasi keuangan syariah tidak berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap minat menggunakan jasa perbankan syariah dengan memperoleh hasil pengaruh secara parsial sebesar 3,1% dan religiusitas memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap minat menggunakan jasa perbankan syariah sebesar 39,8%. Kemudian, secara simultan literasi keuangan syariah dan religiusitas berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap minat menggunakan jasa perbankan syariah sebesar 42,9%. Kata kunci: Literasi Keuangan Syariah, Religiusitas dan Minat Menggunakan Jasa Perbankan Syaria