This study aims at formulating and testing a model of store choice dynamics to measure the effects of consumer characteristics on consumer grocery store choice and switching behavior. A dynamic hazard model is estimated to obtain an understanding of the components influencing consumer purchase timing, store choice, and the competitive dynamics of retail competition. The hazard model is combined...

The analysis in the paper suggests that (i) if news sites were less vertically differentiated, segregation would increase considerably, and (ii) if users did not visit multiple sites, more users would have extremely high or low conservative exposure. To make these hypotheses more precise, we specify and estimate a simple model of Internet news demand, and use it to simulate segregation and cons...

Chambers and Quiggin (2000) have used state-contingent production theory to establish important results concerning economic behaviour in the presence of uncertainty, including problems of consumer choice, the theory of the firm, and principal-agent relationships. Empirical application of the state contingent approach has proved difficult, not least because most of the data needed for applying s...

The social environment of a person has a high influence of his or her consumer behaviour. Social networks transfer these social environments to the online world and enable a targeted influence on the customers purchasing behaviour by word of mouth from their social contacts. With the rapid spread of social networks and the increasing resistance to conventional advertising, companies have to dev...

this study aims to examine the content of isps' websites in two countries, iran and malaysia. the sample contained 31 iranian and 19 malaysian websites. each website was content analyzed for use of various interactivity functions in three dimensions of consumer – message, consumer – marketer and consumer – consumer interactivity. our findings indicate that iranian websites tend to emphasiz...

Credit cards and other forms of unsecured debt can be borrowed without underwriting earnings. Forward looking creditworthy households can use unsecured debt during unemployment to support consumption during an earnings shock. This paper uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data to estimate consumer debt levels of households before, during and after unemployment spells acro...

The initial wireless phone industry in the United States had many competitors, but due to mergers and acquisitions the industry has become highly consolidated. This paper documents the history of the consolidation. More importantly, I use the geographic path of consolidation to distinguish whether consolidation has been motived by retail market power or efficiency explanations. One efficiency e...

Light-field cameras have now become available in both consumer and industrial applications, and recent papers have demonstrated practical algorithms for depth recovery from a passive single-shot capture. However, current lightfield depth estimation methods are designed for Lambertian objects and fail or degrade for glossy or specular surfaces. Because light-field cameras have an array of micro-...

Information processing composes a critical success factor for business effectiveness. Consumer and Sales data comprise the core concept for supporting businesses to apply personalized Marketing/Sales strategies to satisfy consumers and gain competitive advantage. Towards this strategic objective, businesses are facilitated by the huge technology capabilities incorporated in an Electronic Commer...