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Consumer evaluations of product certification, geographic association and traceability in Greece
Dimara, Efthalia; Skuras, Dimitris - In: European Journal of Marketing 37 (2003) 5/6, pp. 690-705
Certification, geographic association and traceability of food and drink products are quality cues that have not been … extensively researched by the current academic literature. These quality cues are highly valued by consumers possessing certain … wine consumers is used to assess the factors influencing consumer evaluations towards quality cues. An ordered probit model …
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Placing Consumers at the Front of the Relief Effort : Redirecting Credit Card Interest Charges
Silber, Norman I. - 2020
Catastrophes including the COVID19 pandemic of 2019-2020 impose great financial stress on consumers. This op-ed proposes the distribution of economic relief directly to consumers by authorizing credit card issuers to bill Congress for portions of the interest that otherwise would be charged to...
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Consumer Arbitration Clause Enforcement : A Balanced Legislative Response
McGill, Shelley - 2017
This article briefly reviews the roots of domestic arbitration policy and the corresponding development of consumer protection policy. It asserts that international arbitration policy was always intended to be tempered by consumer protection principles. Next, the article summarizes the Canadian...
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Towards High-Quality Consumer ADR : The Belgian Experience
Biard, Alexandre - 2019
. Directive 2013/11/EU (the Consumer ADR Directive) has established a new regulatory framework with the intent to develop high-quality … charge of reviewing the quality of CADR providers and ensure that the quality requirements are met on an ongoing basis. This … objectives of the paper are threefold: it explores how quality criteria have been working in practice in Belgium, it sheds some …
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Networks, hackers, and nonprotected consumers
Bartholomae, Florian W. - 2013
In this paper a network model is developed in which three players sequentially choose their strategies. In the first stage, a profit–maximizing network firm chooses the price and thus the size of the network. In the second stage the consumers decide whether to join in the network or not. In...
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Shopping on the Net : Legal Protection for Consumers
Tokeley, Kate - 2016
In this article the author outlines some difficulties facing the cyber-shopper. These include the practical difficulties of enforcement and redress which arise when a cyber-shopper purchases a defective product from an overseas supplier, or when misleading information is placed on the internet...
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Class Actions for New Zealand Consumers
Tokeley, Kate - 2016
This article examines the benefits of the class action for New Zealand consumers. It analyses the current operation of the New Zealand class action and recommends significant reform to expand the use of the class action and to give clear specific guidelines on its operation. The author defines a...
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Online Crowds - Extraordinary Mass Behavior on the Internet
Russ, Chris - 2018
In this paper a novel form of online users, the “Online Crowds,” is described. “Online Crowds” gather virtually, behave and act collectively and produce effects and phenomena which would not be possible without the Internet [Hof 05]. A remarkable example is “The Million Dollar...
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Vertical Restraints in an Online World – the Consumer Perspective
Turner, Vanessa; Reyna, Agustin; Fafchamps, Nicolas - 2021
This paper maps out some of the vertical restraints in the online environment that are particularly relevant from the consumer perspective. This article focuses on some of the most contentious vertical restraints that directly involve prices, are particularly relevant for online commerce and are...
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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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