Furthering equity as an achievable public policy objective is based on theability to assess needs accurately, and distribute resources accordingly.The purpose of this paper is to plot the development of the formulaegoverning resource allocation in education, health and social housingand to chart...

Housing and neighbourhoodConditions have changed radically since the Sustainable Communities Plan proposed “large-scaleclearance” as a central part of the regeneration and renewal of old streets of terraced housing andmore recently built council estates. One thing has not changed: community...

Der Autor behandelt in seiner Arbeit die Besonderheiten der Nutzenstiftung durch ökologische Produkte.

Seit einigen Jahren schon wird in der Marktforschungs- und Unternehmensberatungspraxis sowie in der Presse das Schlagwort "Aldisierung" verwendet, das die generelle Suche des Konsumenten nach dem günstigsten Angebot charakterisieren soll. Insbesondere bezeichnet man mit "Aldisierung" das...

Developed from a joint research effort between BCG and Harris Interactive, this report highlights the importance of focusing on the most recent, most frequent, and highest-spending customers.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht in wie weit Leitmotive und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale das Komsumverhalten bestimmen.

In the literature on international trade, very little attention has been given toinformational asymmetries between firms and consumers with respect to product quality.The few economic models that analyze the question of how asymmetric informationabout product quality might affect trade flows...