InterMedia has launched its Haiti Mobile Money Tracker (HMMT) Project with the mission of providing robust research and analysis into the emerging mobile money (m-money) services market. There is only a limited amount of consumer information publicly available to development practitioners to understand how Haitians are using these relatively new services as well as their access to financial ser...

The relation between money and price has unique relevance in price stability. Rational expectations theorists hold that both anticipated and unanticipated money supply affect price level. This paper addresses this issue and enquires if anticipated and unanticipated money supplies have any role in the variations in whole sale and consumer prices (WPI & CPI) in India over the period 1992:Q1 to 20...

BACKGROUND Strict restrictions on outdoor cigarette marketing have resulted in increasing concentration of cigarette marketing at the point-of-sale (POS). The association between POS cigarette marketing and smoking-induced deprivation (SID) has never been studied. The aim of this study was to examine this association and how it is mediated by cravings to smoke, urges to buy cigarettes, and unpl...

The central puzzle in international business cycles is that fluctuations in real exchange rates are volatile and persistent. We quantify the popular story for real exchange rate fluctuations: they are generated by monetary shocks interacting with sticky goods prices. If prices are held fixed for at least one year, risk aversion is high, and preferences are separable in leisure, then real exchan...

This paper studies the e ects of various types of online advertisements on purchase conversion by capturing the dynamic interactions among advertisement clicks themselves. It is motivated by the observation that certain advertisement clicks may not result in immediate purchases, but they stimulate subsequent clicks on other advertisements which then lead to purchases. We develop a stochastic mo...

Although many studies on green marketing were conducted, factors influencing consumers toward their purchases, for instance, perceived consumer effectiveness, still need to be explored. This study investigates such as eco-labels, product attributes, and environmental concern about purchases. The surveyed 200 Indonesian students who purchased used Body Shop products. Overall, all the proposed hy...

Growth Factors First of all, the increasing popularity of using smart mobile devices has helped advance wireless technology and computing power. For example, modern smartphones now have four-core CPUs and 2 Gbytes of memory and are communicating through 4G LTE wireless networks. Another driving factor is consumer demand for applications for buying and selling goods and services, as well as for ...

With advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), companies and platforms look to use the increasing volume and diversity of user-generated content (UGC) to predict consumer behavior, but with mixed results. In this study, we propose a text mining technique to find support for self-presentation in online social media and show that this is correlated with the content producer’s ...

It is a great honor to have this opportunity to speak to you today about Japan's current monetary policy. With the aim of achieving its 2 percent price stability target, the Bank of Japan (hereafter the Bank) adopted quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE) in April 2013. QQE was expanded further in October 2014. This was because of the potential risk that a decline in the consumer pr...