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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300404
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277577
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494363
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312543
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Sustainable food consumption in China and India
von Meyer-Höfer, Marie; Juarez Tijerino, Andrea Maria; … - 2015
This study examines sustainable food consumption in China and India, based on online consumer survey data. It explores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491296
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Effect of situational factors on store format choice behaviour in food and grocery retailing in India: Multiple discriminant analysis
Jayasankaraprasad, Cherukuri - In: IBSU Scientific Journal (IBSUSJ) 4 (2010) 2, pp. 5-33
stores supermarkets and hypermarkets in the fast growing food and grocery retailing in India. The study is purely based on …-disguised questionnaire from sixty different food and grocery stores from twin cities of Secunderabad and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh in India … published academic literature and empirical findings relating to store format choice behaviour in grocery retailing in India …
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Saving by default: Evidence from a field experiment in rural India
Somville, Vincent; Vandewalle, Lore - 2016
behavior. In rural India, we study the effect on savings of allocating identical weekly payments on a bank account (treated) or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621552
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Consumer preferences for water supply? An application of choice models to urban India
Anand, P. B. - 2001
manifestation of the equity politics in India (the peri-urban households claiming their entitlement to subsidized water), or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279042