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Gesellschaftliches Management von Verbraucherbeschwerden: Funktion und Finanzierung

Becker, Tilman C.; Heinze, Karen - Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, … - 2011

Beschwerdeformen betrachtet werden, da sie für den Verbraucher mit einem stärkeren Engagement und einem größeren Aufwand verbunden sind … vorgebracht werden Beschwerden bei Erfahrungs- und Vertrauensgütern; bei geringwertigen, schnelllebigen Gütern sehen Verbraucher … verzögerte Wertstellung eines Betrages auf einem Kundenkonto für den einzelnen Verbraucher ein vergleichsweise geringer Schaden …

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Is Irish utility regulation failing consumers?

Massey, Patrick - 2004

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Consumer Preferences, Citizen Preferences, and the Provision of Public Goods

Lewinsohn-Zamir, Daphna - 2015

A standard justification for state intervention and regulation is the market failure known as public goods. Assuming the private market cannot appropriately react to the true demand for public goods, the regulator must decide which goods to supply and in what quantity. A regulator wishing to...

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Consumer Inflation Uncertainty Is Rising

Binder, Carola - 2022

This policy brief discusses trends in consumer inflation uncertainty. Inflation uncertainty measures are from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Survey of Consumer Expectations and from the Michigan Survey of Consumers

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Do Political Attitudes Affect Consumers' Inflation Expectations

Gillitzer, Christian - 2017

What sources of information do consumers use in forming their inflation expectations? We show for the United States and Australia that consumers report significantly lower inflation expectations when the political party they support holds executive office. This is surprising because both the...

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Is the Anchoring of Consumers' Inflation Expectations Shaped by Inflation Experience?

Dräger, Lena - 2018

In this paper, we explore the degree of anchoring of consumers' individual long-run inflation expectations utilizing the University of Michigan Survey of Consumer's rotating panel micro-structure. Our results indicate that long-run inflation expectations became more anchored over the last...

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Adware, Shareware, and Consumer Privacy

Gantman, Nataly; Spiegel, Yossi - 2014

Programmers can distribute new software to online users either for a fee as shareware or bundle it with advertising banners and distribute it for free as adware. In this paper we study the programmers' choice between these two modes of distribution in the context of a model that take explicit...

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Tracking Consumers : The Trade-off between the Value of Granular Data and Consumers' Privacy

Narang, Unnati; Luco, Fernando - 2022

In recent years, most mobile apps have started tracking consumers' location and movement patterns. This type of tracking can allow firms that access these data to better predict consumers' future behaviors and to send targeted communications. However, such tracking also raises privacy concerns...

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Consumer Bankruptcy

Huls, Nick J. H. - 2010

The introduction of American ideas of consumer bankruptcy in European continental civil law systems appears to present an opportunity to resolve some of the paradoxes of paternalism analysed by Ogus. Bankruptcy law for individuals in Europe has evolved from a neglected field of procedural civil...

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Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects

Cabral, Luis - 2010

I consider a dynamic model of competition between two proprietary networks. Consumers die and are replaced with a constant hazard rate; and firms compete for new consumers to join their network by offering network entry prices. I derive a series of results pertaining to: a) existence and...

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