Traditionally, information has been assumed to never harm consumers, a notion recently challenged. Salience nudges have been argued to evoke negative emotions, therefore acting as “emotional taxes.” We analyze the emotional and short-term consumer welfare impact of a calorie salience nudge...

This paper examines the moderating effect of the blockchain-authenticated information to an individual's perceived level of uncertainty and thus influences personal affection and cognition processes in online shopping behaviors. The perceived level of uncertainty hides in consumers' emotions of...

Households across Europe are struggling with a double crisis-the worst inflation shock since the World War II and a sudden correction in house prices. There is a rich literature on how housing price cycles affect consumer spending, finding mixed results with a wide range of consumption responses...

"Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyzes knowledge economies in the dynamics of a globalizing...