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Is it good to be bad or bad to be good? : assessing the aggregate impact of abnormal weather on consumer spending
Sandqvist, Anna Pauliina; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2018
Although the in uence of exceptional weather on individual behaviour has already been acknowledged in finance …, psychology, and marketing, the literature examining weather effects at more aggregate level is still limited. Further, there is a … lot of anecdotal evidence that weather anomalies affect consumer spending and retail business. The main aim of this …
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Geographically varying effects of weather on tobacco consumption : implications for health marketing initiatives
Govind, Rahul; Garg, Nitika; Wenbin, Sun - In: Health marketing quarterly 31 (2014) 1, pp. 46-64
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Reference-Dependent Preferences and Homeowners' Consumption Responses to Wealth Shocks
Naoi, Michio - 2012
This paper examines the impact of changes in household wealth on homeowners' consumption behavior using recent panel data of Japanese households. For an average household, we find the elasticity of consumption spending with respect to household wealth to be roughly 1.0% for housing and 1.8% for...
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Paying more for less : why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts?
Dillon, Brian; De Weerdt, Joachim; O'Donoghue, Ted - 2017
Despite average per-capita consumption of roughly $1 per day, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. Using transaction diaries covering nearly 57,000 purchases by 1,499 households over two weeks, we find that through bulk purchasing the average...
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Salient Peers and Consumption : Evidence from the Warranty Claims of Neighbors
Agarwal, Sumit - 2019
We provide novel evidence that peer induced saliency bias acts as a mechanism to explain consumption peer effects. This bias occurs when consumers overweight the influence of a single, salient peer when assessing brand quality, and underweight more objective, aggregate quality data. We exploit...
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Reversing the question : does happiness affect consumption and savings behavior?
Guven, Cahit - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 33 (2012) 4, pp. 701-717
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The Geography of Consumption
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
; this correlation is a clear feature of the data. Using daily rain precipitation from thousands of weather stations in U …
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Machine learning on residential electricity consumption : which households are more responsive to weather?
Kang, Jieyi; Reiner, David M. - 2021
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Is it good to be bad or bad to be good? : assessing the aggregate impact of abnormal weather on consumer spending
Sandqvist, Anna Pauliina; Siliverstovs, Boriss - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 61 (2021) 6, pp. 3059-3085
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012664764
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The Geography of Consumption
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
We provide the first cross-sectoral description of local consumption markets. Detailed credit card data show consumers have limited mobility and manage the spatial dimension of their transactions. In more frequently purchased sectors, expenditure declines faster with distance; further, the spatial...
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