The advent of sponsored search advertising raises many interesting questions regarding consumer's behavior, seller's advertising strategy, and the ensuing market dynamics. Online markets are characterized by significant information asymmetries and consumers rely on a number of informational cues or signals to infer the seller's quality. Of the various quality signals, advertising and price have...

Economic growth and health expenditure in Nigeria have become major priorities, there is no doubt that has risen over the years. According to studies, revenue are important factors contribute a country's economic growth. Using pairwise granger causality, study investigated relationship between oil revenue, expenditure, The variables of interest were expenditures, real gross domestic product, co...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the expenditure on dental care of Mexican households, analyze their trends, and determine the factors associated with the decision to spend and the amount of money spent in 2000, 2002, and 2004. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure for 2000, 2002, and 2004, the national dental health care expenditure was calculated. To facili...

The main objective of this article is to assess the carbon footprint Brazilian families based on Household Expenditure Survey (POF), 2008-2009, from Institute Geography and Statistics (IBGE). methodology used quantify households’ has comprised three data sources: i) expenditure Survey, 2008-2009; ii) Leontief matrix accounts, year 2010; iii) 2009 World Input-Output Database (WIOD) environmental...

this paper attempts to employ microeconomics methodology to answer the following questions: for which group of society the consumption pattern which is used as a basis to calculate consumer price index (cpi) and inflation rate, stands for is there any difference between inflation rate of poor and rich households in iran? calculations done in this paper show that the consumption pattern which be...

The Consumer Expenditure Quarterly Interview Survey collects data from consumer units (CUs) about their expenses during the previous 3 months. The purpose of the survey is to gather information about large purchases, such as those of vehicles and appliances, and expenditures that are made on a regular basis, such as rent and utility payments. These data are collected by the U.S. Census Bureau a...