Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present three modified versions of the simple AK endogenous growth model. Design/methodology/approach – Such frameworks stress the role of consumers' sentiment, the impact of fiscal policy and the effect of non‐optimal investment decisions made by...

Purpose – This paper aims to evaluate critically the assumption that the main reason for acquiring domestic services from the off‐the‐books economy is to save money. Design/methodology/approach – Data are reported from an internet survey of 5,500 people living in households with one or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop growth models that depart from the conventional framework, in the sense that consumption decisions take into account previous periods' expectations about output fluctuations. Households will raise their propensity to consume in periods of...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to establish the role of asymmetric price decompositions in UK road transportation fuel demand, make explicit the impact of the underlying energy demand trend, and disaggregate the estimation for gasoline and diesel demand as separate commodities....

Examines empirically the effects of the rationing system, open inflation and budget deficits on rural and urban consumption behaviour in mainland China. Employs a dynamic error‐correction model. Estimates the model by ordinary least squares (OLS) based on annual data for the period...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate four possible asymmetries in US aggregate consumption and its major components (durables, non-durables, and services) for the period 1990-2013. Understanding the asymmetric behavior of the components is important since the impact of...

Purpose – This study seeks to identify personal characteristics that help to explain variation in consumer confidence in legal authorities' ability to effectively deal with fraud victimization in the State of Florida. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses cross‐sectional survey data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumer behaviour as it relates to identity theft and fraud. Design/methodology/approach – Using survey data, this paper models the relationship between past experience of consumers and their levels of concern, and derives the principal...

Purpose – Misrepresenting the nature of an accident to obtain insurance money for a loss not covered by the insurance policy is definitely unethical and will cause serious harm to insurers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate this issue and examine the impacts of insurance coverage and...

Japanese materialistic behavior and consumption trends are examined by comparing age‐cohort differences between the Japanese “new breed” and “second baby‐boomer age‐cohorts”. Price perception, brand loyalty, and shopping‐information sources of the two age‐cohorts are also...