Business and Consumer Surveys (BCS) are one of the most frequently used tools to assess economy’s cyclical behavior. Croatia has been conducting the surveys continually since 1995. Nevertheless, there is still a research niche in the Croatian BCS framework that has not been adequately represented. The Joint Harmonised EU Programme of Business and Consumer Surveys suggests Business Climate Indic...

Vol. XLVIII (February 2011), 185 –195 *David Gal is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: d-gal@kellogg. northwestern.edu), and Derek D. Rucker is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Support to the second author from the Richard M. Clewett Professorship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwester...

In the main approaches used to elicit consumer preference for food attributes, only limited attribute information are present. Though useful for ranking and revealing consumer preferences, these methods are not appropriate when results may be dependent upon the information set presented in the surveys. Studies have found out that additional quality information in surveys significantly affected ...

This review surveys the developing market for direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests and examines the range of companies and tests available, the regulatory landscape, the concerns raised about DTC testing, and the calls for enhanced oversight. We provide a comparative overview of the situation, particularly in the United States and Europe, by exploring the regulatory frameworks for medical dev...

This paper examines the power of business and consumer survey indicators in predicting retail activity in Croatia. A brief overview of business and consumer surveys is presented, followed by the conceptual logic behind their use in predicting related macroeconomic variables. Detailed elaboration of methodology used is presented next. The main model used for the analysis is a bivariate vector au...