producers and consumers’ price behavior were analyzed in chicken meat market in fars province. monthly average producers and consumers prices from june 1997 to july 2008 were taken into account. changes in the producer and consumer prices indicated that the prices follow an increasing trend with much fluctuations. marketing margin has an increasing trend of violent fluctuations. the result of g...

Gasoline taxes can correct externalities associated with automobile use, reduce dependency on foreign oil, and raise government revenue. Our understanding of the optimal gasoline tax and the efficacy of existing taxes is largely based on empirical analysis of consumer responses to gasoline price changes. In this paper, we directly examine how gasoline taxes affect consumer behavior as distinct ...

A fundamental issue in regard to our field has been raised at various points, most recently in an article on “Consumer Psychology” in the Annual Review series. I am consistently impressed with the way that authors of those chapters are able to synthesize a great deal of the current literature in consumer behavior. The recent chapter by Simonson, Carmon, Dhar, Drolet and Nowlis (2000) was no exc...