-The author aims at studying the influence of consumer-generated comments of the shopping sites on consumer trust. The research divides consumer-generated comments into four types: service comments, product and price comments, self-display comments and after-action comments. With the survey result of 166 college students, the author finds that online shoppers’ trust are influenced by consumer-g...

The aim of this paper was investigating the effects of organic knowledge, perceived consequences, subjective norms,price, and green trust, perceived consumer effectiveness, availability, relative advantage, and organic purchase intention on organic purchase behavior among Iranian consumers as the consumers in a developing country.The survey questionnaire was administered to the customers of lar...

This study investigates factors affecting tourism demands in Selected OIC Countries for the period of 2004 to 2016. The economic variables used in this study are tourist receipts, GDP per capita, real exchange rate, population, Trade openness and Consumer Price Index. GLS method is applied in the research model in order to investigate the relationship between tourist receipts, GDP per capita, r...

Empirical product prices often show certain price endings, i.e., values after the digit, more often than others. The question arises whether price endings non-linearly affect the purchase decisions of consumers and whether firms consider these reactions in pricing. This study is the first that provides a holistic market perspective of consumer demand and firms’ pricing to answer this question. ...

In order to match shoppers with desired products and provide personalized promotions, whether in online or offline shopping worlds, it is critical to model both consumer preferences and price sensitivities simultaneously. Personalized preferences have been thoroughly studied in the field of recommender systems, though price (and price sensitivity) has received relatively little attention. At th...

Price dispersion among commodity goods is typically attributed to consumer search costs. We explore the magnitude of consumer search costs using a data set obtained from a major Internet shopbot. For the median consumer, the benefits to searching lower screens are $2.24 while the cost of an exhaustive search of the offers is a maximum of $2.03. Interestingly, in our setting, consumers who searc...

Digital information goods potentially provide information producers with a new set of strategies, or price schedules, for offering these goods to a consumer population. If consumer preferences are known, then a producer can choose from the available schedules according to the profits they are able to extract. However, if the population is not known, then a producer must weigh a schedule’s compl...

İklim değişikliğinin, son yıllarda tarımsal üretimde yol açtığı problemlerin yanı sıra, Covid-19 salgın sürecinin tedarik zincirinde aksamalara neden olması ve girdi maliyetlerindeki artışlar küresel gıda fiyatlarını yükseltmiştir. Küresel arzında yaşanan kaygılar fiyat artışları hükümetlerin öncelikli gündemleri arasında yer almıştır. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’nin 2006-2021 dönemi için genel üreti...

Digital compression and distribution technologies influence the music industry in various ways. This paper investigates how consumer behavior is affected by the free music products on the Internet. Survey methodology was used to determine the respondents’ perceived likelihood of purchasing legitimate CDs depending on the free availability of the same music via a streaming service or downloading...