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An assessment of power sector reforms and utility performance to strengthen consumer self-confidence towards private investment

, 2021
Pakistan’s power sector has undergone significant reforms since 1994 to improve technical and financial performance. This study aims to measure the post-reform efficiency dynamics of electricity distribution utilities from 2015 to 2019 by taking ...
Nguyen Cong Tiep, Mengqi Wang, M. Mohsin, Hafiz Waqas Kamran, Farzaneh Ahmadian Yazdi   +4 more
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Measuring changes in consumer confidence

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2008
Consumer confidence indicators are surveyed monthly and each month concern different individuals. This complicates a straightforward interpretation of shifts in confidence. First, it is not clear how many respondents switch from and to negative, neutral and positive opinions in consecutive months.
van Oest, R.D., Franses, P.H.
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Seasonality and consumer confidence

Bulletin of Economic Research
ABSTRACTThis research empirically investigates whether consumer confidence is affected by seasonal daylight fluctuations. Cross‐country panel regressions are run with two different datasets. It is found that both solar elevation and sunlight duration positively affect consumer confidence.
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Consumers not confident about self-regulation

British Journal of Nursing, 1999
As the new Health Bill reaches its final stages in parliament the release of the National Consumer Council's (NCC's) report Self-regulation of Professionals in Health Care is timely as it sharpens the focus on public safety (NCC, 1999). It reveals a confused patchwork of self-regulatory systems which contain loopholes that can be exploited by quacks ...
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Measuring weekly consumer confidence [PDF]

, 2008
This paper puts forward a data collection method to measure weekly consumer confidence at the individual level. The data thus obtained allow to statistically analyze the dynamic correlation of such a consumer confidence indicator and to draw inference on transition rates, which is not possible for currently available monthly data collected by ...
Segers, Rene, Franses, Philip Hans
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CONSUMER CONFIDENCE AND ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS

Economic Inquiry, 1995
If consumers become pessimistic about the state of the economy, can there be a slowdown in output, even if their pessimism is not based on economic fundamentals? Recent macroeconomic models show the answer is yes, if there are “strategic complementarities” and multiple equilibria.
JOHN G. MATSUSAKA, ARGIA M. SBORDONE
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How consumer confidence in food safety practices along the food supply chain determines food handling practices: Evidence from Ghana

Food Control, 2018
The relationship between consumer confidence in food safety measures for vegetables sold in open markets and their use of safe food handling practices in the domestic environment was investigated for a set of 332 randomly sampled vegetable consumers ...
C. Lagerkvist, Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, J. Mensah   +2 more
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The factors of consumer confidence recovery after scandals in food supply chain safety

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 2018
Purpose Viewing consumer confidence as a set of static factors has informed previous research and underpinned strategies used in recovering from food safety quality failures, but this approach has not delivered reliable and quick recovery from large ...
Shuhui Wang, P. Alexander
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Poor accessibility of water utilities’ consumer confidence reports

, 2021
William Nicholas, S. Vedachalam
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Consumer Confidence and Income Inequality

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Although the Atkinson Inequality Index is widely used, this paper is the first attempt to empirically estimate the parameter on which that index is based. Forty-five years US income distribution and consumer confidence surveys allow one to estimate this Atkinson parameter of inequality aversion. Consumer confidence appears to have become more sensitive
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