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Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, Colin Charles Williams, Jan Windebank, Adriana Zaiț + 2 more
'Adriana Zaiț' 'Claudia Ioana Ciobanu' 'László Vasa'] Usually, studies on the informal economy focus mainly upon those working in the informal economy (supply side). However, many exchanges in the informal economy are initiated by purchasers asking how much a good or service costs if paid cash in hand. Therefore, the…
Özge Var, Alptekin Durmuşoğlu, Türkay Dereli
Background Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) is a measure obtained from consumer surveys (CS) that gauges assessments and expectations of the economic environment. Common practice uses 4 of the 12 questions in CCI calculation. However, efforts to find best set of questions continue, such as the European Commission…
L. Berg
Trust is a valuable resource that varies between countries. This paper suggests that consumers’ trust in retailers and service providers, facilitating interactions and transactions between sellers and buyers in impersonal markets, is best understood as generalized trust. The paper is based on 28 037 respondents’…
Chen Zhu, Timothy Beatty, Qiran Zhao, Wei Si + 1 more
Individual food choices and consumption are closely relating to one’s diet, nutrition, and health. Using the case of alcoholic beverages, this study extends the random-utility framework by incorporating genetic information into consumer demand models, and demonstrates the significant impact of genetic factors on…
Yixu Huang, Yunlu Yin, Jiayu Lin, Xinnong Zhang + 5 more
Consumer confidence is typically modeled as a persistent macroeconomic index, yet its movements arise from households that interpret economic information through heterogeneous constraints, exposures, prior beliefs, and attention. We introduce ConsumerSim, a generative Human--Environment response framework that…
Erin G. Wessling, Liran Samuni, Roger Mundry, Miguel Adan Pascual + 3 more
Characteristics of food availability and distribution are a key component of a species ecology. Objective measurement of food resources, such as vegetation plot sampling, do not consider aspects of selection by the consumer and therefore may produce imprecise measures of availability. Further, in most animal ecology…
Rhonda Miller
Tenderness, juiciness, and flavor have been associated with consumer acceptance of beef, lamb, and pork. Drivers of consumer liking are interrelated across these species, but there are differences in consumer preferences. Animal age, animal diet, and subsequent marbling impact consumer liking across species. For beef…
Lyu, Wenbo, Zhu, Jiayi + 4 more
This paper proposes a referencable pattern of the recovery of the consumption sector, a new dimension to observe and evaluate the intrinsic value of the consumption sector, and proposes the concept of sensory-based consumption and the ranking of the weights of different categories; creates the concept of digital…
Geying Liang, Yiwen Wang
Despite extensive research on nudging techniques aimed at promoting green consumption, the influence of natural sounds on encouraging environmentally friendly behavior remains relatively understudied. It is valuable to examine how sounds matter in green marketing, as more and more firms are using background sounds in…
Samiha Tariq, Weikang Zhang
This study explores the interdependent relationship between consumer credit and consumer confidence in the United States using monthly data from January 1978 to August 2024. Utilizing a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the analysis focuses on the interplay between household borrowing behaviour and consumer…
Daniel Sekabojja, Aggrey Atuhaire, Victoria Nabankema, Deogratias Sekimpi + 1 more
Tomatoes are consumed daily. Unfortunately, abuse of pesticides application by vegetable growers in Uganda increases risks of exposing consumers through the pesticide residues, as it may be above European Union Maximum Residue Limits (used as a standard in Uganda). This study aimed to determine consumer attitudes and…
R. De Luca, Marco Di Mauro, Angelo Falzarano, Adele Naddeo
Understanding consumption dynamics and its impact on the whole economy and welfare within the present economic crisis is not an easy task. Indeed the level of consumer demand for different goods varies with the prices, consumer incomes and demographic factors. Furthermore crisis may trigger different behaviors which…
Yara Khaluf, Ilona E. de Hooge, António Raposo
Imperfect or suboptimal foods-cosmetically flawed yet nutritionally sound-are frequently discarded across the food supply chain, contributing significantly to global food waste. Although farmers, retailers, and consumers all influence this waste dynamic, existing research often treats their behaviors in isolation and…
Skyler R. St. Pierre, Aeneas Koosis, Nancy Zhang, Ellen Kuhl
Despite growing availability of plant-based meat, limited data exist on how these products perform relative to animal-based options in real-world consumption settings. This study compares consumer sensory perceptions of two plant-based meatballs (soy, soy-wheat) and two animal-based meatballs (beef, beef–mushroom)…
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Drinking straws present a simple form factor for evaluating material design strategies taken by manufacturers to achieve circular, sustainable, and non-persistent products in response to global restrictions and consumer sentiment. We investigated thirteen on-the-market drinking straws of varying formulations…
Jibonayan Raychaudhuri, Ada Wossink, Abdul Majeed
We examine the effect of the 2008 economic recession on consumers’ observed expenditures for eco-labelled grocery products. Traditional price theory predicts that consumers change their spending during an economic downturn and we would expect the sales share of eco-labelled products to fall since these are relatively…
G Dickinson
| INTRODUCTION 2458 | | | --- | --- | | I. THE NEW ERA OF DECEPTION | 2464 | | A. Fraud: Tale as Old as Time | 2464 | | B. Digital Hucksters 2466 | | | C. Personalization at Scale | 2472 | | 1. Consumer Data | 2472 | | 2. Tailored Scams 2474 | | | 3. Vulnerable Populations 2476 | | | II. | LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY…
Yuanmo He, Milena Tsvetkova
Consumption practices are determined by a combination of economic, social, and cultural forces. We posit that lower economic constraints leave more room to diversify consumption along cultural and social aspects in the form of omnivorous or lifestylebased niche consumption. We provide empirical evidence for this…
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Grape seed extract (GSE) is widely utilized in functional foods and dietary supplements due to its antioxidant and anti-aging potential, with much of its bioactivity attributed to oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs). However, current quality standards primarily rely on measurements of total proanthocyanidins or broad…