Consumer Financial Sacrifice: Proposing a Scale

Mixed scale models for survival/sacrifice experiments

Information derived from interim sacrifices or on cause-of-death is routinely used in the statistical analyses of carcinogenicity experiments involving occult tumours. In this article, the authors describe a simple semi-parametric model which does not require this information. Natural deaths during the experiment and the usual terminal sacrifice provide sufficient information to ensure that the...

Consumer Financial Protection.

The recent financial crisis has led many to question how well businesses deliver services and how well regulatory institutions address problems in consumer financial markets. This paper discusses consumer financial regulation, emphasizing the full range of arguments for regulation that derive from market failure and from limited consumer rationality in financial decision making. We present thre...

The Boycott Puzzle: Consumer Motivations for Purchase Sacrifice

A boycott is never far from a firm’s exchanges with its customers. Researchers in marketing need to understand consumer protest behavior, both to aid NGOs who wish to organize boycotts and to assist managers who wish to develop appropriate strategic responses. Boycotts, like many other problems of collective action, are subject to free-rider and small-agent problems: there appears to be little ...

Subjective Knowledge in Consumer Financial Decisions

Vol. L (June 2013), 303–316 *Liat Hadar is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Arison School of Business, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (e-mail: [email protected]). Sanjay Sood is Associate Professor of Marketing, Anderson School of Management (e-mail: [email protected]), and Craig R. Fox is Professor of Strategy, Anderson School of Management, and Professor of Psychology, Departme...

Consumer Attitudes, Expectations, and Financial Market Participation