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The Influence of an Up-Front Experiment on Respondents' Recording Behaviour in Payment Diaries : Evidence from Germany

Sieber, Susann - 2016

-of-sales expenditures. We are particularly interested in the effect of a behavioural experiment, eliciting respondents' risk preferences, on …

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Choosing and Using Payment Instruments : Evidence from German Microdata

von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2016

Germans are still very fond of using cash. Of all direct payment transactions, cash accounts for an astounding 82% in terms of number, and for 58% in terms of value. With a new and unique dataset that combines transaction information with survey data on payment behaviour of German consumers, we...

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Acceptance of mobile loyalty cards in the German B2C consumer goods market

Schneider, Sandra - In: International journal of management and economics 57 (2021) 1, pp. 85-102

The consumer goods market is characterized by strong competition. Thus, to bind customers to the company, a higher priority needs to be attributed to customer retention measures. Such measures include the loyalty card, but the use of the physical card is declining. To counteract this decline,...

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Precautionary motives in short-term cash management : evidence from German POS transactions

Eschelbach, Martina; Schmidt, Tobias - 2013

This paper empirically investigates whether individuals withhold a certain amount of cash for precautionary reasons at the point-of-sale (POS) in order to be able to cover future transactions that might have to be paid for in cash. Such behaviour is costly for consumers because it imposes...

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The value of sporting success to Germans : comparing the 2012 UEFA Championships with the 2012 Olympics

Wicker, Pamela; Kiefer, Stephanie; Dilger, Alexander - 2013

We examine the value of sporting success to the German population at two major sport events in 2012, the European Championships in football and the London Olympic Games. Using the contingent valuation method (CVM), this study is the first to compare the value of sporting success between two...

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Choosing and Using Payment Instruments : Evidence From German Microdata

von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Schmidt, Tobias; Stix, Helmut - 2021

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Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight : evidence from the East German transition to capitalism

Dragone, Davide; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how...

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The distribution of material footprints in Germany

Pothen, Frank; Tovar Reaños, Miguel Angel - 2018

that households consume. Combining input-output data with households' consumption expenditures from the German sample … quartile with the highest consumption expenditures have material footprints three times as large as those in the quartile with … the lowest expenditures. Results of a microeconomic model of household's consumption behaviour estimated on the EVS data …

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How do consumers adapt to a new environment in their economic forecasting? : evidence from the German reunification

Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2018

Exploiting the natural experiment of the German reunification, we examine how consumers adapt to a new environment in their macroeconomic forecasting. We document that East Germans expect higher inflation and make larger forecast errors than West Germans even decades after reunification....

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Pay cash, buy less trash? : evidence from German payment diary data

Eschelbach, Martina - 2017

This research note empirically investigates whether cash can prevent consumers from making needless purchases in unexpected shopping situations. Cash can have a disciplinary effect on short-term consumption because it imposes a strong temporary budget constraint and also reinforces the pain of...

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