Buy Less, Buy Luxury: Understanding and Overcoming Product Durability Neglect for Sustainable Consumption

Why Do Consumers Buy Counterfeit Luxury Brands?

Vol. XLVI (April 2009), 247–259 247 © 2009, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Keith Wilcox is a doctoral candidate in Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Sankar Sen is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Baruch College, City University of New York. Hyeong Min Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carey B...

Pricing Buy-ins and Buy-outs

Pension buy-ins and buy-outs have become an important aspect of managing pension risk in recent years. As a step toward understanding these pension de-risking instruments, we develop models for pricing investment risk and longevity risk embedded in pension buy-ins and buy-outs. We also bring a contingent-claims framework to price credit risk of buy-in bulk annuities. Overall, our model can be u...

Explorer To Buy or Not to Buy ?

This paper examines the interaction of law and policy making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that amounts to actual bodily harm is unlawful in the UK, and calls to decriminalise it are often met with fears that participants will be left vul...

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Buy It for Myself ’

Ecommerce web sites are increasingly introducing personalized features in order to build and retain relationships with customers and increase the number of purchases made by each customer. While survey data, (Personalization Consortium, 2000; Personalization Consortium, 2001), user studies (Karat, et al, 2003), and experience (Manber, 2000) indicate that many individuals appreciate personalizat...