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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Consumer Choice"”.
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HIERARCHICAL PREFERENCES AND CONSUMER CHOICE.
This study considers the problem of the consumer in light of work presented by classical economists who discussed consumption. Richer assumptions about the tasks of an individual consumer and technology of consumption activities are used to develop a static model of consumer behavior. This model is …
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Essays in Consumer Choice Driven Assortment Planning
… variety and relevance is a fundamental driver of consumers' purchase decisions and ultimately of a retailer's profitability. In the last couple of decades an increasing number of firms have gained the ability to frequently revisit their assortment decisions during a selling season. In addition, …
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Risk Aversion and Consumer Choice With Many Commodities
… how changes in attitudes towards risk affect the choices of expected utility maximizing agents whose preferences are defined over a single variable, wealth. The restriction of the analysis to utility functions of one argument, however, severely limits its applicability: in many problems of choice …
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Natural and Manipulated Involvement: Their Influence on Consumer Choice Strategy
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Consumer choice patterns: An analysis based on retail format selection
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:49:57Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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The Pricing of Mortgage Characteristics and Consumer Choice in the Mortgage Market
… a theoretical model is developed related to choice on both sides of the mortgage market. Next, an hedonic model is utilized to estimate the impact of mortgage characteristics on the initial contract interest rate. Finally, borrower demand for various adjustment interval periods is estimated.
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The relative importance of internal and external information in consumer choice environments
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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Firm's Optimal Resource Portfolio under Consumer Choice, and Supply and Demand Risks
… portfolio for a price-setter firm under a consumer choice model with supply and demand risks. The firm sells two products that are vertically differentiated, and has the option to invest in both dedicated and flexible resources. Our objective is to understand the effectiveness of the two …
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Egocentric Categorization: Self as a Reference Category in Product Judgment and Consumer Choice
Be it a shiny sports car or a luxury watch, consumers are predisposed to approach appealing objects. However, rules of modern society restrict consumers from touching or taking objects based on a mere desire to do so. Instead, consumers must have a legal connection to an object---ownership---in …
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Influence of seasoning and preparation of vegetables on consumer choice, consumption, and liking
… vegetables. Regression analysis revealed that consumers who did not often select a vegetable with lunch while dining out were 1.59 times more likely to select the seasoned vegetables (p = 0.007). The majority of participants seasoned their vegetables with herbs and spices (>50% at 75% or at …
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Consumer Choice of Hotel Experiences: The Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sensory Attributes
Understanding the choice behavior of customers is crucial for effective service management and marketing in the hospitality industry. The first purpose of this dissertation is to examine the differential effects that cognitive, affective, and sensory attributes have on consumer hotel choice. The …
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Ionic Characterization of Laundry Detergents: Implications for Consumer Choice and Inland Freshwater Salinization
… study's findings suggest an opportunity wherein consumer choice can play a role in mediating residential salt inputs in receiving bodies such as the Occoquan Reservoir.
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Consumer Choice Among Durables: A Random Utility Model and an Application to Brazilian Households
Consumer choice among durables cannot be satisfactorily accommodated by models directly derived from the conventional, deterministic model. This study proposes an axiomatic and probabilistic framework for modelling consumer choice preferences among durables in the market and discusses its …
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Essays on public policy and consumer choice : applications to welfare reform and state lotteries
… of public finance, little is known about their consumer consequences. Chapter one investigates two central questions about state lotteries and consumer behavior. First, do state lotteries primarily crowd out other forms of gambling, or do they crowd out non-gambling consumption? Second, does …
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"""Going against the flow"": the effects of dynamic orientational metaphors on consumer choice and persuasion"
… and decisions in two different domains: Consumer choice and persuasion. I show in a series of experiments that the sensorimotor experience of going against the flow affects the choices consumers make with participants picking products that are normatively less preferred. Further, I find …
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The influence of occasion on consumer choice: an occasion based, value oriented investigation of wine purchase, using means-end chain analysis / by Edward John Hall
… purchase of wine and the factors that influence consumer choice and the values that drive the decision process across different consumption occasions. The effectiveness of occasion as part of the theoretical model of means-end chain analysis is investigated, as well as the feasibility of occasion …
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An examination of factors influencing the formation of the consideration set and consumer purchase intention in the context of non-deceptive counterfeiting
Consumers’ perceptions towards counterfeits as well as the effect of consumers’ perceptions on consumer purchase behaviour remain unclear. On the other hand, the study of determinants of the consideration set has recently become attractive to researchers due to its importance in relation to the …
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Newspapers and the Internet: friends or foes? : evidence of concentration of choice in Korea
… Internet has a significant impact on consumer choice of information products, reinforcing informational cascades through the inference effect. My findings reveal that since the advent of the Internet, customer preference has consistently been dominated by market leaders, strengthening …
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A Techno-Economic Investigation of Advanced Vehicle Technologies and Their Impacts on Fuel Economy, Emissions, and the Future Fleet
… fuel and emissions reductions while preserving consumer choice, and to evaluate their technological performance and economic practicability as essential aspects of meeting aspirational targets and regulatory requirements associated with the future vehicle fleet.
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Factors influencing consumer brand choice of cordial beverages: a case of spaka cordial drinks brand.
Consumer choice is generally determined by various factors such as product attributes, social factors surrounding the consumer, as well as marketing factors. The objective of the study was to explore factors influencing consumer choice for cordial drinks, particularly focusing on SPAKA brand …
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