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Vulnerable and At-Risk Consumers

2014
The connection between the title of the session, “Vulnerable and At-Risk Consumers” and the papers, was not immediately apparent to me. Upon reflecting on the papers as a collectivity, though, I believe the title to be apt as it captures what lies at the heart of all three papers: a concern with vulnerable and at-risk consumers.
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Risk, Identity, and the Consumer

2009
Monica Greco (1993), in analyzing contemporary conceptions of health, argues that disease is no longer conceived today merely as the opposite of health, the irruption of a normal state of being through the manifestation of a particular set of symptoms.
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Multivariate Risk Aversion and Consumer Choice

International Economic Review, 1990
This paper analyzes the effect of increases in risk aversion on a general consumer choice model with multiple sources of risk. Sufficient--and, in the two commodity case, necessary--conditions for a given demand function to increase (or decrease) with increased risk aversion are derived.
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Consumers’ perceived risk: sources versus consequences

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2003
In this study, we examine an important factor that affects consumers' acceptance of business-to-commerce (B2C) electronic commerce - perceived risk. The objective of this paper is to examine the definition of perceived risk in the context of B2C electronic commerce.
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Consumer Banking and Credit Risk [PDF]

Economía Chilena, 2009
Following Jara and Oda (2007), we consider a group of Chilean banks specializing in consumer loans. Taking the dynamics of the group as a whole, we propose a credit risk model that is based on loan loss provisions. Using accounting ratios, we show that a model for this purpose is dynamic and highly non-linear.
Rodrigo Alfaro A., Daniel Calvo C., Daniel Oda Z.   +2 more
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Food risk facing consumers

2005
In the current context of health crises, many economic and social sciences studies have tried to describe and analyse consumer behaviour related to food risk. These studies share two premises: they consider the act of consuming as an individual behaviour and credit consumers with “risk perceptions” which direct their choice.
Torny, Didier, Torny, Didier
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Risk Regulation and Consumer Welfare

Journal of Consumer Affairs, 1988
Health and safety have become major consumer concerns in the 1980s. Major issues focus on who should decide for whom what level of safety and health is appropriate. This paper examines the role of consumers and government in reducing risk. Consideration is given to consumer risk perception and risk response, the need for government intervention, and ...
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Chinese consumer perceived risk and risk relievers

2012
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Zheng, Lili, Favier, M., Huang, M., Coat, F.   +3 more
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Cancer risk among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Paolo Boffetta, Charles B Hall, Andrew C Todd   +2 more
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Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2018
Farhad Islami, Ann Goding Sauer, Kimberly D Miller   +2 more
exaly