BACKGROUND Front-of-pack nutrition labelling may support healthier packaged food purchases. Australia has adopted a novel Health Star Rating (HSR) system, but the legitimacy of this choice is unknown. OBJECTIVE To define the effects of different formats of front-of-pack labelling on the healthiness of food purchases and consumer perceptions. DESIGN Individuals were assigned at random to acc...

Ethnographic research identifies brokering (a.k.a., “copping for others”) as an important and popular way people who use heroin acquire the drug by making purchases for their peers. Brokering is when a customer buys drugs for a fellow customer using the buyer’s money and is paid using drug the buyer purchases. This distributes heroin costs. Heroin dealers obviously manipulate price and/or drug ...

The return on investments in electronic procurement platforms has been elusive. We show that the use of an electronic platform for the procurement of pharmaceuticals and medical devices has saved the Government of Chile money. Using a unique data set that covers purchases of the same items before and after the new Chilecompra platform was introduced in 2004 and includes controls for other varia...

In this paper, we posit that consumer heterogeneity moderates the respective relationships between two important online purchase objectives of saving money and saving time on online purchase decisions. To explore this relationship, we empirically examine the moderating roles of consumer heterogeneity on the effects of money saved, time saved, and delivery time on purchase decisions. On the basi...

Abstract The World Health Organization says money can spread all varieties of bacteria and viruses. A measure that be taken to help stop the Covid-19 is decreasing or ideally, eliminating, use cash promoting contactless payments. Cash remains a frequently used retail payment method specifically for small-value purchases. switch from cards other methods one major trends in consumer shopping fina...

Online stores, ad portals, shopping apps have become part of everyday life in 2020-2021. The Covid-19 epidemic has rapidly forced numerous entities (public, business, and private) to predominantly oriented electronic commerce the last few months (Peji?-Bach, 2021). Business online space faces new challenges that require additional knowledge skills. object research is assessment how covid-19 imp...

The growth of Internet use, along with the ever-evolving and changing technology, has shifted trade made by traditional methods to electronic media. Although there are several definitions, online shopping can be defined as any step in reciprocal exchange money, commodities, or services between buyer seller through use internet technologies. Online evolved into one most important mega-trends wor...

The level of usage of modern e-money systems in Australia remains low, despite potential benefits and widespread use internationally. This study investigated the characteristics of modern Australian e-money products perceived as most problematic by Australian merchants. Forty-one merchants accepting e-money online and 41 merchants accepting alternative online payments methods identified which o...

What are the effects of unconventional monetary policies during panic-based financial crises? To address this question, I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model of banking. A novel mechanism gives rise to multiple equilibria. In the good equilibrium, all banks are solvent. In the bad equilibrium, many banks are insolvent and subject to runs. The bad equilibrium is also characterized by def...