The benefits of retail therapy: Making purchase decisions reduces residual sadness

The benefits of retail therapy: Making purchase decisions reduces residual sadness

People often shop when feeling sad, but whether and why shopping reduces residual (lingering) sadness remains an open question. Sadness is strongly associated with a sense that situational forces control the outcomes in one's life, and thus we theorized that the choices inherent in shopping may restore personal control over one's environment and reduce residual sadness. Three experiments provid...

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Retail Inventory Management with Purchase Dependencies

purchase or non-purchase of one item or itemset on the purchase or non-purchase of another item or itemset. The research in this paper models for incorporating purchase dependencies in retail multi-item inventory management. One illustrative example has been discussed with data mining in retail sale data. Various types of purchase dependencies including negative dependency have been identified ...

The Benefits of Pre-Purchase Homeownership Counseling

Our paper provides an empirical assessment of the effectiveness of pre-purchase homeownership counseling in reducing 90-day delinquency rates. We use data on nearly 38,000 fixed-rate, purchase money mortgages originated under Freddie Mac’s affordable lending programs between the years 2000 and 2008. We take efforts to control for the quasiexperimental nature of our data, as well as the heteroge...

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