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The Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in Cameroon
Quentin, Kane - 2018
The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using … terms of compensating variation. The paper finds that: (a) poor households are the most affected by food price volatility … and,(b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike …
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The impact of food price volatility on consumer welfare in Cameroon
Kane, Gilles Quentin; Mabah Tene, Gwladys Laure; … - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using … terms of compensating variation. The paper finds that: (a) poor households are the most affected by food price volatility … and (b) the welfare losses from food price volatility depend on the extent of any price hike. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418643
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Partitioned pricing and consumer welfare
Ducbao Tran, Kevin - 2020
In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258923
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A matter of taste : the negative welfare effect of expert judgments
Lagios, Nicolas; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2024
We study how experts influence consumer behavior and welfare by focusing on the Booker Prize. Leveraging the discontinuity created by the attribution of the prize, we show that readers receive the signal sent by the jury of the Booker and are persuaded to buy the awarded book but experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051678
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Welfare Effects of Food Labels and Bans with Alternative Willingness to Pay Measures
Lusk, Jayson L. - 2014
This paper integrates several areas of the literature by more fully developing the linkage between demand estimates and the welfare effects of food labels and bans for three common survey/experimental approaches used to elicit consumer preferences. We present empirical applications related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069871
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Consumer Welfare
Jayawardhana, Jayani - 2013
The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well. In this paper, I develop and estimate a structural model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089806
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Partitioned Pricing and Consumer Welfare
Tran, Kevin Ducbao - 2020
In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825284
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The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads : Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Liaqat, Asad; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Research on the causal effects of online advertising on consumer welfare is limited due to challenges in running large-scale field experiments and tracking effects over extended periods. We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising in which a random 0.5% subset of all users...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056172
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The price penalty on meat substitutes : consumers prefer reduced meat portions over novel meat alternatives and authentic vegetarian dishes : final stage of a registered report
Lemken, Dominic; Langen, Nina - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-27
Due to growing health and environmental problems related to the overconsumption of meat in western diets, we investigated consumer demand for dishes that reduce or replace beef with: (1) plant-based products that mimic the functionality and taste, (2) authentic plant-based ingredients that just...
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Effects of Food Price Spikes on Household Welfare in Nigeria
Shittu, Adebayo - 2018
The dramatic global food price upsurges of 2007/2008 and the resurgence of 2010/2011 have kept the welfare effects of food price shocks at the epicentre of policy discussions worldwide. Studies have found heterogeneous impacts, but empirically little is known in Nigeria. The key objectives of...
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