We have witnessed a large increase in the number of publications on sustainability challenges over the past decade. One important characteristic of the research is with the wide variety of actors that can make use of the results. Sustainability knowledge is often not only relevant for those in...

Efforts and programs toward aiding sustainable development in less affluent countries are primarily driven by the moral imperative to relieve and to prevent suffering. This utilitarian principle has provided the moral basis for humanitarian intervention and development aid initiatives worldwide...

Dans cet article nous modélisons la demande alimentaire en présence d’allégations nutritionnelles associées aux produits. L’objectif est de répondre aux interrogations quant à l’efficacité d’utilisation de ces instruments et d’égalité d’accès aux populations. Nous...

The paper presents results from two natural experiments on the impact of revenue sharing and salary caps on competitive balance in sports leagues arising from the introduction of professionalism in Rugby Union in 1995. The first involves the English Premiership, which traditionally applied a...

The packaging is now a major issue concerning the consumer experience in the food industry. This study aims at showing that a main food packaging characteristics as the color can influence the expected characteristics of the packed product. On the basis of a quantitative survey with 149 people...

This study examines the effects of customer satisfaction on analysts' earnings forecast errors. Based on a sample of analysts following companies measured by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), we find that customer satisfaction reduces earnings forecast errors. However, analysts...

The 500 000 accident-free kilometers travelled by the Google Car is a dramatic example of the future place of domestic robots in everyday life (Rijsdijk and Hultink, 2003). Because of their ability to behave autonomously, to interact like human and to communicate with their environment, domestic...

Struggling to assemble an Ikea product, failing to make a purchase on a website, seeing a recently bought product break down, sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, waiting at the supermarket are only but a few of the multiple occasions for rumination. Although seemingly harmless,...

We analyse consumers’ search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price dispersion among adverts for the same product. We also show...

This report summarises the findings from the first wave of the Slovak Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The analysis is done at the regional level and presents results on household assets, liabilities, net wealth, income and consumption.