egies are designed to motivate people to modify their travel choices, particularly the drive-alone preference. TDM strategies and policies seek to increase transportation system efficiency and achieve specific objectives, such as reduced traffic congestion, road and parking cost savings, increased safety, improved mobility for non-drivers, energy conservation, and pollution emission reductions....

Third party audits of product quality — such as consumer product reviews, financial audits, and court decisions — are common. Prior economic analysis finds that more accurate assessments improve welfare, either by facilitating better consumer choices or encouraging producers to improve quality. This paper shows that, when auditors have binding capacity constraints, information available to cons...

In Present Marketing Scenario, the Study of Consumer Behaviour has become essential. Consumers are the kings of markets. Without consumers no business organization can run. All the activities of the business concerns end with consumers and consumer satisfaction. Customer behaviour study is based on consumer buying behaviour, with the customer playing the three distinct roles of user, payer and ...

Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) have primarily been designed for the consumer to encourage healthy, habitual food choices, decrease chronic disease risk and improve public health. However, minimal research has been conducted to evaluate whether FBDG are utilised by the public. The present review used a framework of three concepts, awareness, understanding and use, to summarise consumer evi...

The Internet has led to an explosion of product choices facing consumers. When consumers face many options, intermediaries can help by ranking them, which in turn can influence how consumers search and what they ultimately purchase. To understand the role of intermediaries’ rankings, it is important to separate the effect of the position in which a firm is displayed in an intermediary’s listing...

Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) have primarily been designed for the consumer to encourage healthy, habitual food choices, decrease chronic disease risk and improve public health. However, minimal research has been conducted to evaluate whether FBDG are utilised by the public. The present review used a framework of three concepts, awareness, understanding and use, to summarise consumer evi...

A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal health plan choices. As a result, policies such as information provision, plan recommendations, and sma...

This study shows how artificial neural networks can be used to model consumer choice. Our study focuses on two key issues in neural network modeling— model building and feature selection. Using the cross-validation approach, we address these two issues together and specifically examine the effectiveness of a backward feature selection algorithm for consumer situational choices of communication ...

Economists since the days of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham have traditionally viewed consumers as driven by relentless and consistent pursuit of selfinterest, with their choices in the marketplace providing all the measurements needed to reveal their preferences and assess their well-being. This theory of the consumer is empirically successful, and provides the foundation for most economic poli...

This study shows how artificial neural networks can be used to model consumer choice. Our study focuses on two key issues in neural network modeling – model and feature selection. Using the cross-validation approach, we address these two issues together and specifically examine the effectiveness of a backward feature selection algorithm for consumer situational choices of communication modes. R...