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The Surveys of Consumers has been conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan since 1946. Each month, 500 individuals are randomly selected from the contiguous United States (48 states plus the District of Columbia) to participate in the Surveys of Consumers. The...
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Some food items that are commonly considered unhealthy also tend to elicit impulsive responses. The pain of paying in cash can curb impulsive urges to purchase such unhealthy food products. Credit card payments, in contrast, are relatively painless and weaken impulse control. Consequently,...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate consumers' latent need to serve society by participating in “Go Green Revolution” and the contribution to proper disposal of waste and packaging of fruits and vegetables by the consumer and retailer.Design/Methodology/Approach – The...
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Aim: The article aims at developing an economic theory of reorientation. As Western subjects are disoriented by long …-time systematic commercial manipulation of their preferences, the theory focuses on new concepts of endogenous preferences and on the … theory in a historical analysis leads to three radically democratic policy proposals for initiating and accelerating a …
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Currently, environmental sustainability is the subject of many discussions, both in biology and ecology and also in economy. The results of these discussions are shown in international forums promoted by governments, programs of social and environmental responsibility carried out by companies,...
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We explore how rival firms respond when firms in their industry violate debt covenants. We find that rival firms increase advertising expense, and that this increase is proportional to the size of industry violators' pre-existing market share. Rival firm product-market share also increases in...
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In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the distribution of ownership and firm value in the presence of multiple blockholders. In recent years, the topic has attracted the attention of many scholars. Yet, the empirical evidence on the relationship between the distribution of ownership...
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This study examines whether family ownership, a prevalent ownership type, is associated with cost elasticity, and the mechanism through which this effect occurs. The contribution is threefold. First, we find higher cost elasticity in family firms than in non-family firms. Second, results from...
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