Do consumers’ values and attitudes affect food retailer choice? Evidence from a national survey on farmers’ market in Germany

a study on rate making and required reserves determination in reinsurance market: a simulation

reinsurance is widely recognized as an important instrument in the capital management of an insurance company as well as its risk management tool. this thesis is intended to determine premium rates for different types of reinsurance policies. also, given the fact that the reinsurance coverage of every company depends upon its reserves, so different types of reserves and the method of their calc...

Consumers’ Attitudes towards Green Food production in China: A test of the values-attitudes hierarchy

Do Local Capital Market Conditions Affect Consumers' Borrowing Decisions?

Studying consumer financing decisions is difficult because of endogeneity problems and scarce data. We use new data and an exogenous change in an interest rate ceiling facing consumers seeking loans from an online peer-to-peer lending intermediary to test how access to finance affects consumers’ borrowing decisions. A differences-in-differences approach reveals that good access to local bank fi...

Do Market Conditions Affect Gift Exchange? Evidence from Experimental Markets

We study whether behavior in experimental gift-exchange markets with repeated interaction is affected by market conditions. One issue we consider is the impact of competitive imbalance, by varying whether there is an excess supply of firms or an excess supply of workers in the market. Workers might react differently to high wage offers in the two cases, as it may seem that firms are ‘forced to ...

Do Political Attitudes Affect Consumer Choice? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Study with Genetically Modified Bread in Switzerland

Independent of the left-right model of ideological structure, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food and agriculture are resented across the political spectrum in Switzerland. In the absence of any real experience with genetically modified (GM) food but faced with continuous exposure to warning messages in the media, conditioned feelings related to such a politically sensitive product ma...