A.Malek Hammami

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• PhD
• Assistant Professor at University of Florida

The U.S. produce industry has been facing significant challenges due to rising minimum wages. This study proposes a modeling framework to analyze the impacts of rising minimum wages and assess their effects on the U.S. produce sector, focusing on the strawberry industry, which confronts both escalating labor costs and competition from low-cost impo...

We examine determinants of U.S. olive oil imports and their dynamics in response to foreign supply shocks and changes in U.S. demand. Using an augmented sectoral gravity framework applied to a disaggregated HS-6 level panel dataset, we employ two estimation techniques (PPML and Heckman) that consider zero trade flows and the potential censored dist...

To better understand this rapidly growing market and identify potential business opportunities, this article focuses on the consumption side of the avocado story, discussing the booming consumption patterns in the major consuming countries around the world, continent by continent. We explore the factors contributing to the booming consumption trend...

We investigate the determinants of U.S. bilateral imports of olive oil and their dynamics from shocks in foreign supplies and changes in U.S. olive oil demand, using an augmented gravity framework that leads to an equilibrium of bilateral trade flows from olive oil exporters to the U.S. market. The empirical specification is applied at the disaggre...

We investigate the welfare and trade impacts of U.S. retaliatory tariffs from the Airbus WTO dispute on EU olive oil, using a calibrated multi-market partial-equilibrium displacement model. The model accounts for four differentiated types of retail olive oil in the U.S. market. U.S. retailer-blenders source olive oil in eight foreign markets and do...

Driven by its healthy and nutritious attributes, the US avocado market has experienced tremendous growth over the past two decades. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of US avocado production and trade. The US avocado market, marked by the decline of already limited US domestic production, is increasingly reliant on imports, especia...

The US orange industry has been grappling with declining production since the early 2000s due to the outbreak of the Huanglongbing disease and various other challenges. To meet the market demand, the United States increasingly relies on imports, notably those from Mexico and Chile. This publication further explores the factors contributing to this...

The growing demand for blueberries driven by their health benefits and the rapidly increasing production worldwide have transformed the landscape of the market of this “superfood”. This article provides an overview of the U.S. blueberry industry and the evolving market, highlighting the intensifying foreign competition and the repercussion.

The United States is one of the world’s top producers of fresh tomatoes. However, the industry supply chain is not well understood with little attention in the literature. To attend to this literature gap and to better inform business decisions and policy making, it is crucial to understand the industry structure on a deeper level. Applying a suppl...

The fruit and vegetable industry is an important segment of the U.S. agriculture. The 2017 U.S. Agriculture Census shows that the industry had total sales of USD 48 billion from over 10 million acres of land. However, over the last two decades, production of major fruit and vegetable crops in the United States has been declining while imports have...

The "Boeing-Airbus" case (DS316) is a 15-year dispute between the EU and the US at the WTO, regarding airplane manufacturing subsidies. the WTO recently allowed the US to impose tariffs on EU products to retaliate from EU subsidies to Airbus on trade valued at $11Billion. The announced tariffs on olive were 100%. However, The final determination w...

This article identifies consumers' impulse purchasing behavior in supermarkets. The study includes an interpretation of the impulse decision relationship with the final purchase and an analysis of the distribution of impulse purchasers' demographic characteristics (age and shoppers' company). SPSS was used to analyze the observed data at a national...

Gastronomic tourism is becoming an important part of the tourism industry. However, there are very few studies on food tourists’ behaviour comparing with those about tourists’ behaviour in general. The current study provides an analysis of tourists’ behaviour based on the perceived value (PV) and the satisfaction (ST) to predict the intention to re...

The purpose of this article is to investigate and model retail consumer purchase behavior and determine factors affecting the purchasing decision. The following hypotheses were verified: H1 tests the influence of “Decision-making Time” over “Final Purchase”. H2 tests “Promotion” over “Final Purchase”. H3, H4 and H5 were established to test the infl...