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Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumptionchoice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They areable to predict how much utility an activity or a good produces for them now and inthe future and they can maximize their utility. This implies...
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Cars have long been considered goods that symbolize status, yet few studies integrate the impact of symbolic and affective motives on the car buying decisions, with even fewer studies focusing on the influence of these motives on Eastern European consumers' buying behaviour. The aim of this...
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The study explores the application of demand theory in studying consumer spending behaviour and policy analysis, with a focus on food demand and consumption patterns. It reviews various demand function systems and introduces the differential approach as a superior method for modelling demand....
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This study assessed households’ willingness to pay and payments for water services supplied by the Akwa Ibom Water Company Limited using the Heckman two-step analysis. Using the survey research design, these households comprised households that have access to 5.06% of water supply services...
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This study assessed households’ willingness to pay and payments for water services supplied by the Akwa Ibom Water Company Limited using the Heckman two-step analysis. Using the survey research design, these households comprised households that have access to 5.06% of water supply services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214372
This paper studies whether anomalies in consumption can be explained by a behavioral model in which agents make predictable errors in forecasting income. We use a micro-data set containing subjective expectations about future income. The paper shows that, the null hypothesis of rational...
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We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overconfident, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by perfectly rational, unbiased, and...
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Raising real interest rates has been cited as a way to increase private saving,and thus provide the resources for growth. But this may not be a viable approach in the poorest developing countries in which most people live at subsistence level. In these situations, consumption is not very...
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Our paper empirically considers two general hypotheses related to the literature of behavioral economics. First, we test the null hypothesis that individuals behave, on average, in a manner more consistent with the rational expectations hypothesis than with the idea of self-control in the face...
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This paper aims at analyzing fuel consumption in households of forest zones, and showed fuelwood’s place as energy source in the region. The study is carried out in Cameroon and it is based on a survey done in 1996. A sample of 400 household from Yaounde, Mbalmayo and Ebolowa was used. The...
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