Purpose – Consumer behavior comprises acquisition, consumption and disposition behaviors. Businesses have generally been most concerned about producing and distributing goods and have thus focused on consumer acquisition and consumption behaviors. But as companies increasingly emphasize...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss an approach to strengthening sales and customer relationships by making it easier for customers to buy from you. Design/methodology/approach – Building on the work of Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein in the book Nudge , the paper acknowledges the...

Purpose – To identify ways for business managers to reduce consumer complicity with counterfeit products by better aligning their actions with consumer beliefs of complicity. Design/methodology/approach – A mall intercept methodology was used to interview 54 US and 48 Brazilian business...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide long‐run annual series of the value of the consumer bundle and related variables. Design/methodology/approach – Benchmark data are assembled for each of the variables. Interpolative techniques are used to obtain values for missing years....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present three modified versions of the simple AK endogenous growth model. Design/methodology/approach – Such frameworks stress the role of consumers' sentiment, the impact of fiscal policy and the effect of non‐optimal investment decisions made by...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate critically the assumption that the main reason for acquiring domestic services from the off‐the‐books economy is to save money. Design/methodology/approach – Data are reported from an internet survey of 5,500 people living in households with one or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop growth models that depart from the conventional framework, in the sense that consumption decisions take into account previous periods' expectations about output fluctuations. Households will raise their propensity to consume in periods of...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to establish the role of asymmetric price decompositions in UK road transportation fuel demand, make explicit the impact of the underlying energy demand trend, and disaggregate the estimation for gasoline and diesel demand as separate commodities....

Examines empirically the effects of the rationing system, open inflation and budget deficits on rural and urban consumption behaviour in mainland China. Employs a dynamic error‐correction model. Estimates the model by ordinary least squares (OLS) based on annual data for the period...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate four possible asymmetries in US aggregate consumption and its major components (durables, non-durables, and services) for the period 1990-2013. Understanding the asymmetric behavior of the components is important since the impact of...