Dynamic Pricing and Organic Waste Bans: A Study of Grocery Retailers’ Incentives to Reduce Food Waste

2023/12/14 by Robert Evan Sanders
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #Environmental Sustainability in Business #Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability #Sustainable Supply Chain Management

paper · doi:10.1287/mksc.2020.0214

openalex publication_date 2023/12/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

I use a structural model with perishability data to analyze the welfare effects of two potential solutions to grocery-retail food waste: dynamic pricing and organic waste landfill bans.

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