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RATIONAL CONSUMERS* [PDF]

International Economic Review, 2016
The life cycle/permanent income hypothesis (LCPIH) entails two postulates: People have rational expectations and people do not have problems with self‐control. If either or both of these postulates do not apply, we cannot obtain a testable implication for the LCPIH.
Kohei Kubota, Mototsugu Fukushige
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To Consume or Not to Consume?

YOUNG, 2004
This article looks at Finnish young people’s conceptions of green consumerism. We examine first the discussion of the greening of youth in contemporary society on the basis of earlier studies.Then we present the results of qualitative analysis of the different data concerning environmental consumerism. The data were collected at upper secondary schools
Minna Autio, Visa Heinonen
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CONSUMER CREDIT AND CONSUMER DEMAND FOR AUTOMOBILES

The Journal of Finance, 1976
No aggregate time series data are available for all three credit terms: the downpayment percent, the finance charge, and the length of contract. It is the interaction of these terms which determine the price of using credit to purchase an automobile.
Eastwood, David B, Anderson, Robert C
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Consumer Research for Consumers

Journal of Consumer Research, 2001
This article outlines a consumer‐focused approach for the study of consumer behavior. I argue that much of the existing literature, by developing knowledge that focuses on the determinants of consumer purchasing, is implicitly biased toward a marketing perspective of consumer behavior.
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Consuming the consumers

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2011
Previous sociolinguistic research concerning the use of Hawai‘i Creole (HC) in public discourse has posited a link between a negative public image and subsequent discouragement of its use by government and media (e.g. Romaine 1999; Sato 1989, 1991, 1994), except in some limited venues.
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Consumer-to-Consumer Product Trading With Strategic Consumer Behaviors in the Sharing Economy

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2023
Technological advancements have led to an increase in the popularity of consumer-to-consumer product trading (C2C-PT). How C2C-PT affects the manufacturer (called the “firm”) and consumers in the market is unclear. We, therefore, build analytical models to explore this problem.
Juzhi Zhang, Tsan-Ming Choi, Ya-Jun Cai
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Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming

Critical Review, 1994
The tendency to denigrate consumerism derives from the widespread acceptance of sociological theories that represent consumers as prompted by such reprehensible motives as greed, pride, or envy. These theories are largely unsubstantiated and fail to address the distinctive features of modern consumption, such as the apparent insatiability of wants and ...
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