The Elusive Price Premium for Ecolabelled Products: Evidence from Seafood in the UK Market
通过分析英国伦敦地区海洋管理委员会认证的冷冻阿拉斯加鳕鱼产品扫描数据，发现消费者为生态标签海鲜支付了14.2%的显著溢价，表明可持续实践能带来市场回报。
Ecolabelling is an increasingly important tool used in the promotion of sustainable forestry and fishery products around the world. Whether the consumer is actually paying a price premium for ecolabelled products is of fundamental importance as it indicates a return on the investment of sustainable practices, providing an incentive for producers to undertake such practices. This article seeks to address the question of whether or not an actual premium is being paid by consumers for ecolabelled seafood by conducting a hedonic analysis of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)-certified frozen processed Alaska pollock products in the London metropolitan area in the UK market using scanner data. Regression results show a statistically significant premium of 14.2%. This implies the presence of market differentiation for sustainable seafood and the potential of the MSC’s fisheries certification programme to generate market incentives for sustainable fisheries practices.