Die vorliegende Arbeit ist ein Seminarbericht von 1999 der Arbeitsgruppe "Klima, Umwelt und Zukunft" der Stipendiaten der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Es wird die Frage aufgeworfen, ob im ökologischen Landbau und den dazugehörigen Vermarktungsstrategien eine Chance für den Klimaschutz und für die...

Whether consumers are aware of potentially adverse product effects is key to private and social incentives to disclose information about undesirable product characteristics. In a monopoly model with a mix of aware and unaware consumers, a larger share of unaware consumers makes information...

Social commerce represented at least $14 billion dollars in 2015, steadily increasing from previous years. A survey by Statista showed that 65.4% of US users had used a social media platform to make purchase directly through a post in 2017. As the size of social media worldwide continues to...

The new Consumer Rights Directive introduced some changes to the level of consumers' protection online. However, just like with its predecessor the Distance Selling Directive the main focus of the protection that consumers have been granted online rests in providing them with transparent and...

We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was active between 2002 and 2005 in eight European countries. Applying before-and-after and difference-in-differences estimations we find average overcharges between 6.7 and 6.9 percent...