Customer loyalty or repeat purchasing is critical for the survival and success of any store. By focusing on online stores, this study investigates the repeat purchase intention of experienced online buyers based on means-end chain theory and prospect theory. In the research model, both utilitarian value and hedonic value are hypothesised to affect repeat purchase intention positively. Perceived...

bstract—Food intake is an essential human activity reguated by homeostatic and hedonic systems in the brain which as mostly been ignored by the cognitive neurosciences. Yet, he study of food intake integrates fundamental cognitive and motional processes in the human brain, and can in particuar provide evidence on the neural correlates of the hedonic xperience central to guiding behaviour. Neuro...

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of hedonic and matched model methods on historical data for electric motors in Sweden 1900–35. The resu...

100 words max): This article estimates the impact of the 2007-2008 residential housing market bust on farmland values, using parcel-level farmland sales data from 2001-2010 for a 50-county region under urbanization pressure in western Ohio. Hedonic model estimates reveal that farmland was not immune to the residential housing bust; the portion of farmland value attributable to proximity to urba...

This study uses a unique integration of geospatial and hedonic property data to estimate the impact of sea-level rise on coastal real estate in North Carolina. North Carolina’s coastal plain is one of several large terrestrial systems around the world threatened by rising sealevels. High-resolution topographic LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data are used to provide accurate inundation maps...

ONOMICS/FINANCE International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 2012, V Foreclosure The legal process by which an owner’s right to a property is terminated, usually due to default. Hedonic regression A method of estimating demand or value. It decomposes the price of a good or service into its constituent characteristics and obtains estimates of the contributory value of each characteristic. Sub...

Using urban residential micro data from CHNS, this paper employs Hedonic Pricing Model to investigate the impact of Neighborhood Quality on housing value and its mechanism. We find that, Human Capitals measured by average schooling years and occupational diversity have significant positive effect while cultural capitals such as Ethnic Diversity have significant negative effect on housing value....

Smartphones have evolved to be among the most important objects in peoples' daily lives. However, little knowledge exists on users' relationships with smartphones. This study examines user-smartphone relationship from an attachment perspective. More specifically, present research develops understanding of different faces smartphone considering perceived value-in-use smartphones as a source. The...

This article examines the effect on price of different characteristics of holiday hotels in the sun-andbeach segment, under the hedonic function perspective. Monthly prices of the majority of hotels in the five major tourist regions in the Spanish continental Mediterranean coast were gathered from May to October 1999, from the tour operator catalogues. Hedonic functions are specified as random-...

Information is considered as an all-encompassing element that weaves connections and facilitates continued use in social networking. This study provides a new perspective by delineating the nature of information in social networking into hedonic and utilitarian information quality as well as information providers’ characteristics such as their reputation and intentions (altruism). Extending DeL...