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Consumer confidence

SecEd, 2008
The British Educational Suppliers’ Association (BESA) demands that all its members adhere to a stringent code of practice. This offers schools certain guarantees when shopping in the education market. Director Ray Barker explains
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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, R., Franses, Ph.H.B.F.
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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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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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Consumer Confidence and Stock Returns

The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2002
Financial advisors who worked to restrain exuberant investors in the late 1990s, worked equally hard to lift desperate investors in the early 2000s. Will lower stock prices sap the confidence of consumers? Will lower consumer confidence extinguish all hope for investors?
Meir Statman, Kenneth L. Fisher
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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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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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Consumer Confidence Reports: Opportunity's Knocking

Journal AWWA, 1997
Consumer confidence reports (CCR) are just one part of the 1996 revisions to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The revisions require all systems to prepare an annual report on source water and the levels of contaminants found in the drinking water. This article details how the report must be made available to the consumers and what information the ...
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Cultivating Consumer Confidence Through Communication

Journal AWWA, 1988
The old adage—“How you communicate is as important as what you communicate”—is especially true regarding public relations between a water utility and its customers. A utility will not be perceived as trustworthy, even if it provides the cleanest, safest water possible—it has to be a visible part of the community, and it must communicate on a regular ...
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SDWA Mandates Consumer Confidence Reports

Opflow, 1997
With the passage of the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act amendments, the US Environmental Protection Agency will require each community water system to provide customers with a consumer confidence report at least once a year. This article lists what, at a minimum, is to be included in the reports and discusses who is encumbered with the financial burden of
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