What are the differences in exerting self-control in sequential choices when consumers choose for others (family or friends) rather than for themselves? Sequential choices represent an opportunity to manage the pursuit of one’s multiple personal goals. Consumers typically manage these personal goals by combining indulgent and virtuous choices. When choosing for others, however, this is not the ...

Food consumption patterns in Asia are rapidly changing. Urbanization and changing lifestyles have diminished the consumption of traditional meals based on cereals, vegetables and root crops. These changes are accompa-nied by an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases among Asian populations. ILSI Southeast Asia and CSIRO, Australia jointly organized the Symposium on Understanding and Influenc...

For a sample of 9,799 subscribers to single mobile operator, we observe switching between handsets July, 2011, and December, 2014. We estimate discrete choice model in which account for disutility from different operating systems brands. Our estimation results indicate the presence significant inertia use our simulate market shares absence costs conclude that Android smaller would increase at e...

  I n this paper, the effects of the Food Stamp (FS) Program (now referred to as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-SNAP) on individuals’ food choices are evaluated. In other words, I examine how households' food choice or relative food consumption is changed by FS participation. For this purpose six food groups are created using 2016 Consumer Expenditure Diary Surv...

The purpose of this thesis is threefold: First, to explain how learning shapes consumer behaviour over a comestible (experience) good. Second, to examine the role of feedback information and information aggregation for consumer choices and market performance in markets for experience goods. Third, to understand how firms react to heterogeneous consumer choices in the supermarket industry when f...

Many consumer choices lead to subsequent decisions. In such situations, any choice option may be evaluated based on its own characteristics (direct evaluations), or evaluated based on the characteristics of alternatives it makes available in subsequent decisions (derived evaluations). We contrast direct and derived evaluations in the context of two consumer research issues. First, in choices be...