CONSUMER PROTECTION RELATED TO DISPENSING PUMP MANIPULATION IN SPBU (GAS STATION)

Attention Manipulation and Information Overload: Barriers to Consumer Protection⇤

Consumers’ attention limitations give firms incentives to manipulate prospective buyers’ allocation of attention. This paper models such attention manipulation and shows that it limits the ability of disclosure regulation to improve consumer welfare. Competitive information supply, from firms competing for attention, can reduce consumers’ knowledge by causing information overload. A single firm...

Protection of consumer rights in Cyberspace

Today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation in ...

Pump Station Monitoring System

Cost Pass-Through to Higher Ethanol Blends at the Pump: Evidence from Minnesota Gas Station Data

We examine the pass-through of wholesale prices to retail prices in the market for E85, which contains 51% – 83% ethanol, and in the much larger market for E10 (regular unleaded gasoline), which contains 10% ethanol. We use a panel data set consisting of monthly observations from 2007-March 2015 on wholesale and retail prices for 274 Minnesota gas stations that sell both E10 and E85. The E10 ma...

Consumer Protection

n this article, I survey the state of the mortgage loan transfer system, the legal rules that govern it, and the widening gap between those rules and the practices in the secondary mortgage market just prior to the 2008 crisis. The review includes some empirical assessment of the extent of errors and execution problems; the damage done by “robo-signing;” the Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys...