The difficulty Internet stores face in developing consumer trust is an ongoing impediment to the proliferation of Internet shopping. In order to develop consumer trust, many e-commerce strategies and Website features have been proposed in the IS discipline. Trust-assuring arguments are one proposed feature and refer to a statement or statements offering support for a claim made by an Internet s...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the proportion of snack food and beverage choices available to an Australian consumer. DESIGN A survey of product Nutrition Information Panels (NIP) and product labels on snack foods and beverages offered for sale. Data on nutrient content were compared with criteria from different nutrient profile systems to estimate the proportion of items conforming to a choice. SET...

An examination of the economic impacts of the diagnosis of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae on grower/finisher swine operations indicated that reduced pork production, associated with the diagnosis of A. pleuropneumoniae on the operation, diminished consumer surplus by $53+/-52 million, and resulted in a total loss of $32+/-30 million to the US economy in 1995. Most of the economic surplus lost ...

This paper specifies and estimates a dynamic model of consumer preferences for new durable goods with persistent heterogeneous consumer tastes, rational expectations about future products and repeat purchases over time. Most new consumer durable goods, particularly consumer electronics, are characterized by relatively high initial prices followed by rapid declines in prices and improvements in ...

4 Antoniewicz compared estimates of total household liabilities from the 1989 and 1992 surveys to estimates from the flow of funds accounts (FFA). For 1989, SCF total household liabilities equal $3.1 trillion, whereas the FFA estimate is about $29 billion less, and for 1992, the SCF estimate is $3.6 trillion, while FFA is about $116 billion higher. Estimates of consumer credit from the SCF are ...

Fuzzy models to recognize consumer preferences were developed as part of an automated inspection system for biscuits. Digital images were used to estimate physical features of chocolate chip cookies including size, shape, baked dough color, and fraction of top surface area that was chocolate chips. Polls were conducted to determine consumer ratings of cookies. Four fuzzy models were developed t...

The promotion of energy-efficient appliances is necessary to reduce the energetic and environmental burden of the household sector. However, many studies have reported that a typical consumer underestimates the benefits of energy-saving investment on the purchase of household electric appliances. To analyze this energy-efficiency gap problem, many scholars have estimated implicit discount rates...