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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Consumer Sentiment"”.
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Collective intelligence in financial markets : does consumer sentiment influence valuation of financial products?
This paper examines the relationship between the public mood associated with the economies of Italy, Spain and Greece, and prices of Credit Default Swaps on sovereign bonds of aforementioned countries. The effect of the changes in the public mood was measured by Granger causality tests and linear …
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Studying How Changes in Consumer Sentiment Impact the Stock Markets and the Housing Markets
Consumer sentiment has the ability to provide researchers with many avenues to test existing Finance and Economic theories. Chapter 1 introduces the issues that I seek to explore within the area of Behavioral Finance. Chapter 2 utilizes thirty years of consumer sentiment data to explore extant …
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Quantifying the Effects of Sentiment and Expectations on the United States Credit Growth
<p>This dissertation examines the role of sentiment and expectations in predicting U.S. credit growth, drawing upon insights from behavioral finance and macroeconomic forecasting. While traditional economic theories emphasize fundamental determinants of credit expansion, growing evidence suggests …
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Consumer confidence and business cycles : a casy study for the Netherlands : are business cycles driven by animal spirits?
… an attempt is made to explore the relevance of a consumer confidence index in forecasting business cycles in the Netherlands. Furthermore, the possible heterogeneity regarding the information content of individual questions is addressed, and it is investigated whether this information can be …
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It's all relative: assessing prominent explanations for U.S. homicide trends
… changes in single parent households, inflation, consumer sentiment, military involvement, racial heterogeneity, disadvantage, incarceration, gun prevalence, racial and gender inequality, felony arrest, and divorce/family disorganization. These results indicate that many of the most “common” …
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A consumer assessment of household attitudes, awareness, drivers and likelihood of installing solar water heaters under a monthly payment scheme in Cape Town, South Africa
… key research problem is to try understand why consumers1 have not installed SWHs under non-MPS conditions and whether a MPS can generate better installation rates. SWHs generate clean energy by using the heat of the sun instead of electricity to heat household water. On average, SWHs displace …
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Extending the Boundaries of Supply Chain Transparency: Supplier Monitoring Activity Disclosure, Consumer Evaluations, and Brand Equity
<p>Socially responsible policy makers and consumers are pressuring firms to make their supply chains more transparent by disclosing information about their supplier monitoring activities (SMA). Yet, high monitoring costs and the complexity of supply chains pose challenges for firms to effectively …
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Consumer Acceptance of Beer: An Automated Sentiment Analysis Approach
… the correct methodology to better understand how consumers perceive food products is a challenging task for the food industry and sensory researchers alike. Free comment tasks (FC) utilize the advantages of open-ended questions to generate intuitive comments from untrained consumers to help …
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An Empirical Approach to Social Networks
… present in a user's tweets, and if the overall sentiment on this issue is positive or negative. We utilize this data to determine how people should have chosen an outcome which may conflict with an individual's observed declaration of political ideology. We are able to determine what percentage …
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Demand uncertainty and investment in the restaurant industry
… performance. Economic uncertainty affects consumer sentiment and spending, turning into demand uncertainty. Nevertheless, the highly competitive nature of the restaurant industry does not allow much room for restaurants to actively control prices, leaving most food service firms exposed to …
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Worried While Prospering – A study of the contradictions between consumer confidence and spending in Hungary
… the occasional discrepancy between declining consumer sentiment and incresing spending in Hungary. Through a well-constructed deliberative investigation the difficulties of this complex topic were turned into important insights and useful learnings, for theoretical consideration as well as for …
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Desarrollo de modelo de gestión comercial dentro del plan de mercadeo para el incremento en ventas y posicionamiento regional de la organización “Ferreina”
Ferreina pertenece al sector comercial ferretero, ofrece productos y servicios relacionados con materiales para el transporte de químicos, fluidos, líquidos, gases, petróleo y sus productos complementarios para la industria como tal, asegurando la asesoría y acompañamiento en el desarrollo …