Research on price promotions suggests that higher discounts often result in more favorable deal evaluations. However, consumers reactions do not always follow a consistently linear path when evaluating the deal. Price promotions offering too high or too low value may result in adverse deal...

The Hausman test is used in applied economic work as a test of misspecification. It is most commonly thought of (wrongly some would say) as a test of whether one or more explanatory variables in a regression model is endogenous. There are several versions of the test available with modern...

Consumption-based asset pricing models (CCAPMs) connect asset returns with consumption growth. The poor empirical performance of early consumption models has led to the development of a number of more sophisticated models. Nevertheless, most models focus on the US markets, and very few CCAPMs...