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An Introduction to the Special Issue on “Behavioural Economics, Consumer Policy, and Consumer Law” [PDF]
Journal of Consumer Policy, 2011 European consumer policy—coupled with the European Economic Constitution and European consumer law—is based on an assumption of rational-acting consumers and suppliers and is deeply rooted in the information paradigm. The information paradigm indicates that asymmetric information can be an impediment to welfare-enhancing consumer decision making.
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The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Given the importance of environmental values (altruistic, biospheric, and egoistic) to pro-environmental behavior, it would be useful to segment the population – an approach known as market segmentation – to tailor pro-environmental messages more ...
Rebecca J. Sargisson +3 more
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Energies, 2015 Empirical studies of public opinion on environmental protection have typically been grounded in Inglehart’s post-materialism thesis, proposing that societal affluence encourages materially-sated publics to look beyond their interests and value the ...
Karen Stenner, Zim Nwokora
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npj Science of Learning, 2023 This study examined the relationship between family wealth and school dropout among vocational education students (n = 1,231; mean age=17.81). It investigated whether (1) family affluence and adolescents’ own perceptions and experiences of their family ...
Catrin Finkenauer +6 more
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Behavioural economics and terrorism ::law enforcement and patterns of behaviour /
, 2021 Behavioural Economics and Terrorism can be used as a guide to help us think about thinking and, in doing so, to appreciate the deep quirkiness of human behaviour. Each day, people draw on their understanding of human behaviour.
Phillips, Peter J. +3 more
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Children, 2023 Despite the many benefits of club-organized sports participation for children, sports participation is lower among children from low-income families than among those from middle- or high-income families.
Lonneke van Leeuwen +4 more
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Journal of Comparative EconomicsPreferences play a key role in economic models as drivers of behaviour. Recent contributions have started to model preferences as endogenously determined. This creates two fundamental issues for empirical research. The first concerns the determinants of preferences.
Bouchouicha, Ranoua +2 more
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Consumer Inertia, the New Economy and EU Competition Law
Market and Competition Law Review, 2018 Services and goods in the new economy, such as social media platforms and applications, are often offered to end-consumers for “free”. This may cause problems for the application of traditional antitrust doctrines, such as tying or other forms of ...
Vladimir Bastidas Venegas
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General theory of legal design in law and economics framework of commercial contracting
, 2021 We need law and economics to do the scientific measurement necessary for legal design to be seen as on the stage of science. Law and economics—which is the application of economic theory, especially microeconomic theory, to the analysis and the practice ...
Nousiainen, Katri, Katri Nousiainen
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A Research Agenda to Better Understand the Human Dimensions of Energy Transitions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have a key role to play in understanding which factors and policies would motivate, encourage and enable different actors to adopt a wide range of sustainable energy behaviours and support the required system ...
Linda Steg +18 more
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