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The reverse mortgage: Consumer attitudes
Olejnik, Iwona; Białowąs, Sylwester - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 1, pp. 25-34
The main goal of this article is to describe the attitudes towards the reverse mortgage (RM) as one of the options for acquiring additional financial resources by those who have finished their professional activity and retired. The article reports the results of our own quantitative research....
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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished
Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460
with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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Choosing the Joneses : Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
Knell, Markus; Falk, Armin - 2004
A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards against which people compare themselves are exogenously given. In contrast findings from social...
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Contracts, biases and consumption of access services
Leider, Stephen G.; Sahin, Özge - 2012
We consider a consumption model that takes into account the valuation and demand uncertainties that consumers face while using access services. Typical examples of such services include telecommunication services, extended warranties for consumer electronics, and club memberships. We demonstrate...
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Das hybride Wahlmodell und seine Anwendung im Marketing
Dannewald, Till; Kreis, Henning; Silberhorn, Nadja - 2007
Traditional choice models assume that observable behavior results from an unspecified evaluation process of the observed individual. When it comes to the revelation of this process mere choice models rapidly meet their boundaries, as psychological factors (e.g., consumers' perception or...
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Optimism, pessimism and the unforeseen: Modelling an endogenous business cycle driven by strong beliefs
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2002
Indicators of trust, confidence, optimism or sentiment among consumers and/or investors, are published continuously in the mass media. More importantly, these indices seem not only to reflect how the state of the real economy is perceived by private agents, but can also help predict the future...
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The euro through the looking-glass: Perceived inflation following the 2002 currency changeover
Lunn, Pete; Duffy, David - 2010
Following the Euro changeover in January 2002, consumers across the Euro Area perceived a sharp rise in inflation, in contrast to official figures. Several theories have been advanced to explain this apparent economic illusion, but they struggle to account for its striking scale and persistence....
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Háztartási fogyasztói magatartás és jólét Magyarországon: Kísérlet egy modell adaptációjára
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Molnár, György - 2008
The outcome of the economic performance of individuals is utilised in the form of consumption and consequent welfare. Despite this truism, there is relatively little information available on household consumption behaviour in Hungary stemming from investigations based on economic theory. The...
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Durable Purchases over the Later Life Cycle
Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas; Lührmann, Melanie - 2012
We investigate the life cycle patterns of households’spending on medium value durables. We use panel data on expenditures on appliances and consumer electronics the British Household Panel Study between 1997 and 2008. In cross section, expenditures for appliances and consumer electronics...
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Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects
Valbonesi, Paola; Miniaci, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo - 2005
Competition in public utility sectors has been encouraged in recent years throughout Europe. In this paper we try and analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is to introduce a sensible measure of affordability of...
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