This study aims to investigate the patronage behaviour of Islamic banks customers and the importance of Shariah compliance, within a total Islamic banking system, compared to other criteria in their selection decisions. The sample consists of 395 valid and complete responses of bank customers....

A central question in the analysis of fuel-economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment. We examine the short-run equilibrium effects of an exogenous restatement of...

Prior research has validated the importance of consumer delight and satisfaction for explaining consumer loyalty. This study extends our existing knowledge of how delight and satisfaction affect (in a nonlinear way) consumer loyalty. It explains a negative quadratic relationship between...

This article introduces Bayesian extension of ANOVA for the analysis of experimental data in consumer psychology. The approach, called BANOVA, addresses some common challenges that consumer psychologists encounter in their experimental work, and is specifically suited for the analysis of...

We examine the effects of monetary policy on household self-assessed financial stress and durable consumption using panel data from eighteen annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey. For identification, we exploit random variation in household exposure to interest rates generated by...

Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people's non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent consumption activity that is influenced by religiosity: grocery shopping. Using both...

These comments were submitted to the FTC as part of its hearings on “Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.” In these comments, we analyze three overarching topics relevant for the regulation of data: (1) The role of privacy as an element of non-price competition; (2) The...

In Pakistan, tourism industry is growing rapidly but lack of researches and studies contributes in creating gap in understand the role of social media marketing in improving this sector. For this purpose, this research is conducted to investigate and examine the impact of social media...

This research paper focused on the impact of persona creation by celebrity endorsement on consumer buying behavior and on their perceptions towards beauty soaps particularly in Karachi city. Pakistan is a country where people would love and proud to follow or copy or be look like their favorite...