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Les paradoxes du consommateur postmoderne

Decrop, Alain - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLVII (2008) 2, pp. 85-93

This paper takes place within the societal shift from modernism to postmodernism and presents major consumption trends of the last two decennia. Those trends lead to a series of paradoxes that are interpreted in the light of postmodernist theories. The paper shows how consumption phenomena...

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Is Cannabis a Stepping-Stone for Cocaine?

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses a unique dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the dynamics in the consumption of cannabis and cocaine. If people start using these drugs they are most likely to do so at age 18-20 for cannabis and age 20-25 for cocaine. An analysis of the starting rates...

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Spanish Wine Consumer Behaviour: A Stated and Revealed Preferences Analysis

Nadhem, Mtimet; Miguel, Albisu Luis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

Overall wine consumption in Spain is decreasing while, at the same time, Designation of Origin (DO) wine consumption is increasing gradually. This study examines Spanish DO wine consumer behaviour through stated preferences (SP) and revealed preferences (RP) data. Part-worth utilities are...

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Analysis of the Preferences for a New Convenient Seafood Product: Empirical Application for Spain and Norway

Dopico, Domingo Calvo; Olsen, Svein Ottar; Tudoran, Alina - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

to overall preference for the product and also to estimate how these have an influence on overall satisfaction and future … and consumption, as it explains most of the satisfaction and intention to consume the product. The relative contribution … of health and convenience aspects is significant only on intention to consume, but not on satisfaction. Consequently …

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LA INFLUENCIA DE LA IMPLICACIÓN CON EL ANUNCIO EN EL PROCESO DE FORMACIÓN DE ACTITUDES

Bigné, J. Enrique; García, Javier Sánchez - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2001

Taking as its core the attitude toward the advertisement, this study attempts to determine the mechanisms through which advertising influences consumers' attitudes and buying behaviour. These mechanisms are analysed in terms of involvement with the message and with the execution of the ad, and...

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Un análisis bayesiano de la variación temporal del escenario de compra de los hogares

Manero, Carmen Berné; Figueras, Manuel Salvador; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2008

This paper aims to analyse the underlying factors of varied behaviour shown in the store set of purchase of households during a time period (temporal variation). In order to examine whether there are differences between households with and without shopping varied behaviour, a Bayesian Separate...

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Economic theories of sustainable consumption

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999

The term 'sustainable consumption' denotes the search for consumption patterns that reduce human pressure on the environment and nature. This search involves three levels of research. First, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and environmental sustainability has to be clarified. A...

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An Optimising Model for Monetary Policy Analysis: Can Habit Formation Help?

Fuhrer, Jeffrey C. - Reserve Bank of Australia - 1998

In earlier work (Fuhrer 1997a), I document what I view as the failure of standard models of representative consumer and firm behaviour to replicate the dynamics that we observe in the aggregate data. In essence, these models fail because they imply that both inflation and real variables must...

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Gianluigi Zenti, President, Academia Barilla SpA - The Changing Consumer: Demanding but Predictable

Hartl, Jochen - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 09 (2006) 02

It is crucial to understand and predict consumers' behaviour to meet future consumer demands. This report contributes to the discussion by giving an insight into consumers' behaviour from the perspective of Gianluigi Zenti, executive director of Academia Barilla. It is discussed how consumers'...

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Determinants of Choice Regarding Food with Nutrition and Health Claims

Aschemann, J.; Hamm, Ulrich - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Health is an increasingly important topic in the food market. The regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims is meant to facilitate healthy food choices of consumers. However, research studies about claim perception and choice behaviour are scarce in Europe up to this point,...

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