management and other employees. Mixing these two practices—giving stock options to consumers who buy the firm’s productâ …€”, creates a deadly brew. Large numbers of consumers can be lured into buying this product, giving the entrepreneur huge profits … and the consumers a growing profit share. But this is a camouflaged Ponzi that will ultimately crash. By analogy it is …

surveys are conducted on a monthly basis: Industry, Consumers, Retail Trade, Construction and Service Sector. In addition …

, regulators and international organizations are increasingly recognizing that consumers from specific socio-economic backgrounds … may be less satisfied than those from other backgrounds. To attend to this, instances of demand-side regulation have been … implemented, but there remains a lack of empirical research on the precise links between consumers’ socio-economic background and …

, regulators and governments since the 1990s. Evidence is mounting that consumers in specific socio-economic groups express lower … ameliorating lower satisfaction levels of these groups of consumers. However, more information on the precise relationships between … satisfaction and consumers’ socio-economic background is required if policy is to be proportional and effective. This paper …