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Social Influence and Consumption : Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors

Grinblatt, Mark - 2007

This study analyzes the automobile purchase behavior of all residents of two Finnish provinces over several years. Using a comprehensive dataset with location coordinates at the individual consumer level, it finds that the purchases of neighbors, particularly in the recent past and by those who...

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Consumers Sentiment and Cognitive Macroeconometrics Paradoxes and Explanations

Bovi, Maurizio - 2006

Using data from the Business Surveys Unit of the European Commission as a long-running-continental-scale experiment, this paper examines how, and how accurately, people assess economic systems. Data show both commonsense (e.g. people know the past better than the future) and puzzling results...

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Social Influence and Consumption : Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors

Grinblatt, Mark - 2007

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Incidence of an Emotional Tax : The Case of Calorie Menu Labeling

Thunstrom, Linda - 2019

Traditionally, information has been assumed to never harm consumers, a notion recently challenged. Salience nudges have been argued to evoke negative emotions, therefore acting as “emotional taxes.” We analyze the emotional and short-term consumer welfare impact of a calorie salience nudge...

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Sports Sentiment and Tipping Behavior

Ge, Qi - 2017

This paper utilizes a high frequency dataset on taxi rides in New York City to investigate how emotions due to sporting event outcomes affect passengers' tipping behavior. I formulate and empirically test a reference-dependent preferences framework of tipping behavior. The results indicate that...

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How impulsivity influences the post-purchase consumer regret?

Sokić, Katarina; Horvat, Đuro; Gutić Martinčić, Sanja - In: Business systems research : a system view accross … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 14-29

Abstract Background The role of impulsivity in post-purchase consumer regret is unclear and intriguing because of the negative emotions that underlie both constructs. It is particularly important to examine the impact of impulsivity on the relationship between regret and the Emotionality...

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The Influence of Emotion on Households' Borrowing

Bazley, William; Jannati, Sima - 2022

from consumer behavior research that link negative emotions to credit-financed consumption, we show that transitory emotion … influences households' use of online loans. Specifically, we find that a lack of positive emotion leads to greater demand for … loans. However, emotion-fueled borrowing is associated with a lower likelihood of repayment. We do not find transient …

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A Study on the Effect of Seller Fairness on Customer Empathy and Trust in Online Shopping Focusing on the MZ Generation

Lee, Sun-Ki; Lee, Kyung-Jae - 2023

Purpose – This study examined how service providers effectively respond to consumer complaints in an online shopping environment by applying the fairness theory including distributive, procedural, and interactional fairness.Design/Methodology/Approach – Empirical research was conducted using...

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Sadder but wiser : the effects of affective states and weather on ambiguity attitudes

Baillon, Aurélien; Koellinger, Philipp; Treffers, Theresa - 2014

Many important decisions are made without precise information about the probabilities of the outcomes. In such situations, individual ambiguity attitudes influence decision making. The present study identifies affective states as a transient cause of ambiguity attitudes. We conducted two...

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Strategic Ignorance of Health Risk: Its Causes and Policy Consequences

Nordström, Jonas; Thunström, Linda; van 't Veld, Klaas; … - 2018

We examine the causes and policy consequences of strategic (willful) ignorance of risk as an excuse to overengage in risky health behavior. In an experiment on Copenhagen adults, we allow subjects to choose whether to learn the calorie content of a meal before consuming it, and measure their...

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