Der Autor behandelt in seiner Arbeit die Besonderheiten der Nutzenstiftung durch ökologische Produkte.

In most environments, information is critical to consumer's decision making. Consumers have prior beliefs about quality and price of goods and services and obtain new information which is used to update these prior beliefs or to form posterior beliefs, i.e., Bayesian learning. New food products...

This report examines potential impacts on export markets and prices from commercializing GMOhard red spring wheat in the U.S. within the next two to six years. GMO crop technology offerspossible large benefits to consumers in the future, if plant-breeding concepts in the developmentstage...

This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents. First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...

Two interested parties dominate the current debate on genetically modified (GM) foods: environmental groups and agribusiness companies. For the average consumer to arrive at an informed decision on these new foods, they must rely on information from interested parties. Unfortunately, information...

Internet auctions for consumers are among the most popular and most successful business models in electronic commerce. Research so far, however, has focused on prerequisites and consequences of auctions as a marketing instrument of suppliers. Even though it is a key success factor from a...

[...]Early in the morning of each business day, the major foreignexchange trading firms send their customers lists oftechnical trading signals for that day. Timely technical signalsare also supplied by major real-time information providers.These signals, which are based primarily on prior price...

[...]This study is the first formal investigation ofconsumer attitudes that compares the forecasting power ofthe University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentimentand the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index.We begin with a background analysis of structural differencesbetween the...

This paper examines the implications of “prominence” in search markets. We modelprominence by supposing that the prominent firm will be sampled first by all consumers.If there are no systematic quality differences among firms, we find that the prominentfirm will charge a lower price than its...