of a paper to be presented at the Berlin IO Day, on September 25, 2014: Non-Linear Income Effects and the Welfare Consequences of Tax in Differentiated Product Oligopoly Rachel Griffith, Lars Nesheim and Martin O'Connell Random utility models are widely used to study consumer choice and how it is affected by the economic environment. In such models it is standard to assume that the marginal uti...

Real household consumption in the United Kingdom increased by about 4% during 2001. This was the sixth consecutive year of above-average growth—the longest above-trend period over the past five decades (see Chart 1). During the second half of the 1990s, consumer spending was boosted by robust growth in households' real disposable incomes, as well as strong gains in household wealth, particularl...

One of the major concerns in different countries today is to manage inflation and resources according it. Even though there are many factors that affect economic growth can inflation, concern this research regarding Consumer Price Index. The first objective study investigate relationship between consumer price index Agricultural Land, Urban Population, Trade, Military Expenditure, Primary Energ...

innovation has attracted considerable interest in recent years in improving competitive advantage for both profit and nonprofit organizations. service innovation offers the potential for substantially improving the performance, but performance gains are often obstructed by users’ unwillingness to accept and use available systems. this research aims to use the concept of reasoned action theory t...

Laypersons ("consumers") often have difficulty finding, understanding, and acting on health information due to gaps in their domain knowledge. Ideally, consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) would reflect the different ways consumers express and think about health topics, helping to bridge this vocabulary gap. However, despite the recent research on mismatches between consumer and professional lan...

The causes and ramifications of the rise in the consumer debt burden over time have been subject to much debate. This paper first offers a brief overview and analysis of the key economic variables used to evaluate consumer debt levels. The principal focus of the paper, however, is a broad review of the literature on the topic of consumer debt to provide a framework for how to assess recent cred...

The objective of this paper is to conduct a reappraisal Katona's (1968) adaptive theory consumer behaviour, which maintains that discretionary consumption partly determined by attitudes and expectations households. Initially, using UK data, we follow Katona empirically examining whether changes in personal expenditure on durable goods are connected earlier movements confidence. Evidence lack st...

OBJECTIVE Dental caries remains the most common disease worldwide and the use of fluoride toothpaste is a most effective preventive public health measure to prevent it. Changes in diets following globalization contribute to the development of dental caries in emerging economies. The aim of this paper is to compare the cost and relative affordability of fluoride toothpaste in high-, middle- and ...

OBJECTIVE Irish participation in the EU-supported DAta Food NEtworking (DAFNE) project required compliance with the overall aims and objectives. The Irish Household Budget Survey (HBS) expenditure data had to be transformed into a format compatible with the collaborative effort, by converting them into quantities of foodstuffs available per person per day. SETTING The Irish 1987 HBS expenditu...