The approach taken by researchers in the area of behavioral pricing is based on the psychological principles of human perception and information processing as well as on sociological principles of human relations and social norms. In this e-book we feature several researchers who have...

What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class...

We model the interaction between the marriage market and the intrahousehold allocation of resources. We do this within a setting that accounts for both economic gains to marriage (through public consumption) and unobserved non-material match quality, without relying on the transferable utility...

In diesem Diskussionsbeitrag wird zunächst eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Definitionen für das Phänomen Sharing Economy aus der wissenschaftlichen Literatur analysiert. In diesem Schritt wurden die Technologische Umsetzung, Organisationsform der Plattform, der Umgang mit Verfügungsrechten, die...