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Consumer Confidence as a Matter of Information and Regulation - Can it Enhance Social Welfare?
König, Jan C. L. - 2012
Confidence seems to replace certain knowledge and the necessity for specific information. It simplifies economical processes and procedures, it motivates investing, and obviously, it enhances welfare — if it was missing, innumerable dealings would not be made. Consequently, if confidence among...
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Avoiding cognitive dissonance : experimental evidence on sustainable online shopping
Eßer, Jana; Flörchinger, Daniela; Frondel, Manuel; … - 2024
Cognitive dissonance may arise from the inconsistency between an individual's behavior and her self-image. We … specifically whether individuals avoid cognitive dissonance by (a) a change in behavior to comply with own attitudes and by (b) two … of conventional online shopping. Results indicate that individuals adapt their behavior after having received the …
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Employee brand love and love behaviors : perspectives of social exchange and rational choice
Wang, Yao-Chin; Ryan, Bill; Yang, Chu-En - In: International journal of hospitality management 77 (2019), pp. 458-467
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Social capital, user motivation, and collaborative consumption of online platform services
Kim, Eunjin; Yoon, Sungjun - In: Journal of retailing and consumer services 62 (2021), pp. 1-9
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Three systems underpinning marketing behavior
Bagozzi, Richard P. - In: AMS review : official publication of the Academy of … 8 (2018) 1/2, pp. 23-29
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Group Buying, Buyer Heterogeneity and Seller’s Bargaining Power
Li, Xinxin - 2013
Group buying enables collective bargaining opportunity that individual buyers lack to negotiate prices with sellers. This potential negotiation capability has two opposing effects. On the one hand, the prospect of the group being able to negotiate price with its rival forces each seller to lower...
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Consuming Your Way to Efficiency : Public Goods Provision Through Non-Distortionary Tax Lotteries
Giebe, Thomas - 2014
We revisit the classical result that taxation of private consumption is distortionary and therefore precludes the efficient provision of public goods. We introduce a nonlinear consumption tax which we call a `tax lottery'. Under this scheme, an ad-valorem consumption tax is supplemented with a...
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Strategies and Evaluating Strategic Choices of Firms and Consumers
Huric Larsen, Jesper Fredborg - 2014
The purpose of this note is to introduce how to evaluate strategic choices of the firm using economic principles. The procedure is based on simple cost benefit considerations such as building on the economic principles of incentive compatibility constraints based in Game Theory
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Why Is Price Dispersion Higher Online Than Offline? The Impact of Retailer Type and Shopping Risk on Price Dispersion
Zhuang, Hejun - 2018
When physically similar products, of similar quality, are offered by retailers both online and offline, we often observe that the dispersion in prices of these products online is greater than the price dispersion offline. This observation runs counter to early theories that suggested price...
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Consumer Referrals
Arbatskaya, Maria N. - 2014
In many industries, firms reward their customers for making referrals. We analyze the optimal policy mix of price, advertising intensity, and referral fee for a monopoly when buyers choose to what extent to refer other consumers to the firm. We find that the firm uses its referral fee, but not...
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