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Perceived authenticity and museum visitors' behavior: a case of South Tirol's museum of archeology in Bolzano

Brida, Juan Gabriel; Tokarchuk, Oksana - Dipartimento di Informatica e Studi Aziendali, … - 2011

In this study we analyze perception of authenticity by visitors of South Tyrol's museum of archeology, best known as … related to authenticity and study the determinants of the perception of authenticity by the visitors. Individuated factors are … then employed to explain visitors' behavior at the museum. In particular, we study how perception of authenticity is …

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Reexamining Health Messages in the Digital Age : A Fresh Look at Source Credibility Effects

Kareklas, Ioannis; Muehling, Darrel; Weber, T. - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of perceived source credibility on the effectiveness of health-related public service announcements (PSAs) and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communications. Findings indicate that online commenters who are perceived to be credible are instrumental in...

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Combining Evolutionary Computing Techniques to Find Credible Qualitative Descriptions of the Demand-Side of Markets

Edmonds, Bruce; Moss, Scott; Gaylard, Helen - 1997

In many markets, customer preferences depend on the activity of the customer. The authors have previously demonstrated a model that allows the testing of the qualitative judgments of domain experts in spirits markets against relevant EPOS price and sales data. This paper extends the use of...

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Fostering purchase intentions toward online retailer websites in an emerging market : an S-O-R perspective

Kühn, S. W.; Petzer, D. J. - In: Journal of internet commerce 17 (2018) 3, pp. 255-282

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Beyond Engel´ s Law: Pursuing an Engelian approach to welfare a cross country analysis

Kaus, Wolfhard - 2012

Engel's law is known to be extraordinarily consistent across time and space. Accordingly, it has been widely used to determine poverty. However, also among the poorest, a certain amount of non food spending is necessary. To substantiate the distinction between necessities and luxuries, already...

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Values, food and bags: A study of consumption decisions in a laboratory supermarket

Kasser, Tim; Matthey, Astrid - 2013

We study the relation between people's personal values and environmentally friendly consumption behavior. We first assessed subjects' personal values using the Aspiration Index. Then subjects participated in a laboratory supermarket offering organic and conventional food products and different...

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The nature of risk preferences: Evidence from insurance choices

Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2011

We use data on households' deductible choices in auto and home insurance to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates standard risk aversion (concave utility over final wealth), loss aversion, and nonlinear probability weighting. Our estimates indicate that nonlinear...

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Spending responses to state sales tax holidays

Agarwal, Sumit; McGranahan, Leslie - 2012

Every year over 20 states offer sales tax holidays (STHs) on specific items like clothes, shoes and other items to encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the spending response to these holidays. Using a...

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Making sense of the subprime crisis

Gerardi, Kristopher S.; Lehnert, Andreas; Sherland, Shane M. - 2009

This paper explores the question of whether market participants could have or should have anticipated the large increase in foreclosures that occurred in 2007 and 2008. Most of these foreclosures stemmed from loans originated in 2005 and 2006, leading many to suspect that lenders originated a...

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What explains differences in foreclosure rates? A response to Piskorski, Seru, and Vig

Adelino, Manuel; Gerardi, Kristopher; Willen, Paul - 2010

In this note we discuss the findings in Piskorski, Seru, and Vig (2010) as well as the authors' interpretation of their results. First, we find that small changes to the set of covariates used by Piskorski, Seru, and Vig significantly reduce the magnitude of the differences in foreclosure rates...

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