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The impact of food price volatility on consumer welfare in Cameroon
Kane, Gilles Quentin; Mabah Tene, Gwladys Laure; … - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then...
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The Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in Cameroon
Quentin, Kane - 2018
The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919592
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Volatility in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry : A Simulation Based Study
Sengupta, Abhijit - 2010
The volatility in a CPG market is modeled using a bottom up simulation approach and validated against disaggregated supermarket transactions data. The simulation uses independent agents, each agent representing unique households in the data. A simple behavioral model incorporates household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012715490
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Does Partner Volatility Have Firm Value Relevance? An Empirical Analysis of Strategic Alliances
Yang, Hang-Jin - 2020
Purpose – Alliance members have constantly revised market strategies over time by withdrawing membership from a current alliance, joining another alliance, or constructing a new alliance. From the perspective of the signaling effect, the purpose of this study is to analyze the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844734
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Income and Consumption over the Business Cycle : Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
Brancatelli, Calogero; Inderst, Roman - 2021
disregarded and yet sizeable component of household expenditures: consumption of food and non-food consumer packaged goods. We … tax records with household scanner data, thus minimizing measurement error for both expenditures and the key explanatory … significant variation in expenditures and thereby reveal substantial scope for potential savings. Still, even though the …
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Attention to Extreme Returns
Gödker, Katrin - 2019
It has been shown that individual investors are more likely to buy rather than sell stocks that catch their attention. This can lead to suboptimal choices when attention-attracting qualities of a stock may indirectly detract from its utility. This paper tests the causal effect of extreme stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900508
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Geographic Aggregation and the Measurement of Real Consumption Growth and Volatility
Lecznar, Jonathon - 2018
We estimate real consumption's growth rate and volatility in light of three new facts documenting geographic differences in consumption: (1) consumers in separate markets buy different products, (2) a product's market share varies geographically conditional on relative price, and (3) product...
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Noisy signals : do ratings' volatility depend on the length of the consumption span?
Boto-García, David; Leoni, Veronica - 2023
This paper investigates the informational content of online reviews. For the case of hotels, we model how the length of the stay shapes the variance of review scores. Grounded on violations of temporal monotonicity, errors in recall and hedonic adaptation theories, we first present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248792
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Noisy Signals : Do Ratings’ Volatility Depend on the Length of the Consumption Span?
Boto-García, David; Leoni, Veronica - 2023
This paper investigates the informational content of online reviews. For the case of hotels, we model how the length of the stay shapes the variance of review scores. Grounded on violations of temporal monotonicity, errors in recall and hedonic adaptation theories, we first present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358058
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Financial frictions : micro vs. macro volatility
Faccini, Renato; Lee, Seungcheol; Luetticke, Ralph; … - 2024
Consumer credit spreads significantly impact consumption and asset dynamics, affecting indebted households' spending behavior and the income sensitivity of consumption. Analyzing Danish data, we find that elevated credit spreads reduce consumption of indebted households. Our results suggest that...
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