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Education and Training Needs in the Field of Consumer Protection in the Lower Danube Region
Dinu, Vasile; Marchevski, Ivan; Dobrescu, Eugen; … - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 12 (2010) Special No. 4, pp. 709-734
professional advice. Taking into account the fact that education and training are a strategic factor for a sustainable development … training in the field of consumer protection in order to train and to supply the labour market with specialized experts in this … education and training in the field of consumer protection in the Lower Danube Region, we decided to collect and study the …
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Education and Training Needs in the Field of Consumer Protection in the Lower Danube Region
Dinu, Vasile - 2013
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The Magic of Fintech? Insights for a Regulatory Agenda from Analyzing Student Loan Complaints Filed with the CFPB
Bruckner, Matthew A.; Ryan, CJ - 2022
This paper looks at consumer complaints about student loan lenders and servicers from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) consumer complaint database. Using a novel dataset drawn from 30,678 complaints filed against 212 student loan companies, we analyze consumers’...
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Modern Income-Share Agreements in Postsecondary Education : Features, Theory, Applications
Ritter, Dubravka - 2020
An income-share agreement (ISA) in postsecondary education is a contract in which students pledge to pay a certain percentage of their future incomes over a set period of time in exchange for funding educational program expenses in the present. Typically, participants begin to make payments once...
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Price transparency in residential electricity : experiments for regulatory policy
Lunn, Pete; Bohacek, Marek - 2016
Two laboratory studies investigated the effect of price transparency on consumers' decision-making in the residential electricity market. The first tested whether consumers have difficulties when confronted with unit prices expressed as discounts from standard rates, which vary between...
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An experiment for regulatory policy on broadband speed advertising
Timmons, Shane; McElvaney, Terence J.; Lunn, Pete - 2019
Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...
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The impact of consumer protection in the digital age : evidence from the European Union
Rösner, Anja; Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data from the Special and Flash Eurobarometer for the years...
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The impact of consumer protection in the digital age : evidence from the European Union
Rösner, Anja; Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data from the Special and Flash Eurobarometer for the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157233
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Competition and consumer protection in the Romanian banking sector
Iacovoiu, Viorela; Stancu, Adrian - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 45, pp. 381-396
This study highlights the relationship between the competitive environment in the domestic banking sector and the protection of consumers’ rights and interests. The research is focused on three areas: analysis of the competitive environment, based on detailed analysis of the degree of...
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Competition and consumer behavior in the context of the digital economy
Vătămănescu, Elena-Mădălina; Nistoreanu, Bogdan Gabriel - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 45, pp. 354-366
The current paper aims to investigate the relation between competit ion and online purchasing decision-making, integrating consumer protection awareness and the corresponding consumer behavior as mediators. The focus is on both subjective and objective measures related to the level of consumer...
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