Consumer casualties : exploring the economics of habit, information, and uncertainty in Japan

Junmin Wan

In our increasingly globalized world of shared cultures, we have seen the spread of addictive behaviors such as smoking and various forms of gambling. As these behaviors and subsequent habits continue to spread across borders, it is paramount for policy makers to consider the economics of habit, information and uncertainty in their practices.Junmin Wan takes a two prong approach to analyzing this pressure in Japan in his new volume Consumer Casualties. He first clarifies the consumer preference for habit to identify useful approaches toward solving a number of economic issues, such as gambling and other addictive practices. He then tests his theories with data on smoking, lottery gambling and pachinko gambling, to determine their causalities and distill proposals for policy makers.

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Year of publication:	2014 ; 1. ed
Authors:	Wan, Junmin
Publisher:	New York, NY [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Konsumentenverhalten \| Consumer behaviour \| Sucht \| Addiction \| Rauchen \| Smoking \| Glücksspiel \| Gambling \| Suchtprävention \| Addiction prevention \| Japan \| Verbraucherverhalten \| Pachinko
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Extent:	XXII, 184 S. graph. Darst.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Machine generated contents note:1. Introduction 2. Rational Addiction with an Optimal Inventory: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Daily and Monthly Purchases3. Response to Health Information: Theory and Evidence from Cigarette Consumption and Intake of Nicotine and Tar in Japan4. Responses of Consumers to the Mandatory Disclosure of information: Evidence from Japanese Inter-brand Cigarette Sales5. Is Gambling Addictive? Evidence from Pachinko Participation, Quitting, and Re-Initiating6. Are Gambling and Smoking Complementary? Direct Tests from Japanese Individual Data7. Tax Revenue in China and the Incentive to Declare Taxes: The Lottery Receipt Experiment8. Is the Life-Cycle Model or Ono's Model Most Suitable for the Japanese?: Analysis by Time-Series Data and Surveys of Lottery Purchase and Large-Prize Winners 909. Conclusions.
ISBN:	978-1-137-38724-0
Classification:	Sucht als soziales Problem
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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