Preliminaries -- and Overview -- Demand Theory Under Review -- Quantile Regression: A Robust Alternative to Least Squares -- Analyses of Data from BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Description of Data Used from the Ongoing BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys -- Stability of U.S. Consumption...

This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the...

Introduction -- Notes on Some Theories of Giffen Behaviour -- Exact and Useful Optimization Methods for Microeconomics -- On the Definitions of Giffen and Inferior Goods -- Giffen Behaviour and Strong Assymetric Gross Substituability -- A Child Garden of Concrete Giffen Utility Functions: a...

Key Factors of Economic Growth -- Commodity, Utility Density, Quality and Labor -- Consumption and the Growth of Consumption -- Organization—protection and restriction -- Production Theory- Individuals and Manufacturers -- Analyze of Economic Growth.

This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which...

This volume is concerned with the complexities of the relationship between globalization and different groups of consumers in developing countries. Globalization, it is argued, can yield frustration and disappointment as well as welfare gains for consumers; it may, but does not necessarily,...

Various psychographic traits that most directly influence consumers’ private label attitudes are the focal point of Stefanie Weiss’ investigation. The author develops a comprehensive profile of psychographic predictors of attitude and identifies ways of translating these insights into...

Wie führt man Kunden direkt zum Kauf? Indem man Kaufprozesse gezielt anstößt und auf dem Weg zum Abschluss die richtigen Impulse setzt. Denn allein der funktionale Nutzen eines Produkts, seine emotionalen Attribute oder ein sorgfältig designter Markenauftritt reichen bei weitem nicht aus, um...