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The birth of brand: 4000 years of branding
Moore, Karl; Reid, Susan - In: Business History 50 (2008) 4, pp. 419-432
evidence is compared with modern research directed toward developing a meaning of 'brand'. We observe a gradual transition from … a more utilitarian provision of information regarding origin and quality to the addition of more complex brand image … characteristics over time, including status/power, added value and finally, the development of brand personality. …
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Credit Card Reform and Bankruptcy Reform
Simkovic, Michael - 2012
Consumer advocates won a victory with the passage of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. (Credit Card Act). The Credit Card Act bans certain pricing practices that were confusing to credit card users. Ironically, the seeds of this legislative victory may...
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The Effect of BAPCPA on Credit Card Industry Profits and Prices
Simkovic, Michael - 2009
The U.S. Bankruptcy code changed dramatically with the passage of The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act Of 2005. This act increased the costs and decreased the benefits of bankruptcy to consumers. Supporters of the law claimed that it would benefit consumers as well as...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...
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Occupation, Marital Status and Life-Cycle Determinants of Women's Labour Force Participation in Mid-nineteenth-Century Rural France
Grantham, George - 2012
The French census of 1851 is one of the few nineteenth-century censuses that attempted to record the work of women and children carried out within households. This paper argues that the occupational designations in the nominative census lists are an accurate indicator of employment status. This...
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Religious loyalty and acceptance of corruption. A replication study of Gouda and Park (Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2015)
Wagner, Joachim - In: International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical … 1 (2017) 2017-3, pp. 1
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Trust and cheating
Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...
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Trust, values and false consensus
Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898121