Viele Kaufentscheidungen fallen erst am Point of Sale (POS), zumindest werden viele Absichten dort erst konkretisiert. Dies allein begründet die herausragende Bedeutung der Verhaltensforschung am POS. Bei dieser Forschung bedarf es des Einsatzes geeigneter Forschungsmethoden und der Beachtung...

Against the background of diverse food scandals this article investigates the role of trust as a determinant of consumer behaviour in Germany. As empirical analyses indicate, the impact of trust on consumer behaviour in a quotidian and presumably safe setting is to be neglected. In the...

The aim of this paper is to understand what a recession means for individual consumers, and to model in a life-cycle framework how individuals respond to recessions. Our focus is on the sharp increase in savings rates that have been observed in the current and recent recessions. We show...

This paper presents a method for visualizing competitive market structures based on scanner panel date where asymmetries are taken into account. For this, I combined consumer choice models based on mixed logit models with three-mode principal component analysis. This approach can be used to...

There are two main research traditions for analyzing market basket data that exist more or less independently from each other, namely exploratory and explanatory model types. Exploratory approaches are restricted to the task of discovering cross-category interrelationships and provide marketing...

With commodity prices continuing to decrease and with policy constraint that farmers cannot easily increase their incomes by increasing volumes of production, they must find alternative ways to maintain their standard of living. This can be achieved by either niche marketing of agricultural...

The following research is guided by the hypothesis, that products chosen on a shopping trip in a supermarket are an indicator of the preference interdependencies between different products or brands. The bundle chosen on the trip can be regarded as an indicator of a global utility function. More...

Die urbane Mobilität hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark gewandelt. Hierzu tragen vermehrt die aufkommenden Sharing-Angebote bei. Neben dem schon länger betriebenen Carsharing kam vor einigen Jahren das Bikesharing und nun auch das Ridesharing und E-Scootersharing hinzu. Die Akzeptanz dieser...