In general, few studies have examined the influence of children and adolescents on family decision-making. This study evaluates the relative influence of children and adolescents on the purchasing decisions of families planning to buy both major/durable and minor/nondurable products. These family products are classified by product type, and the results from a sample of 2,402 children and adoles...

Game theory is an efficient tool to represent and conceptualize the problems concerning conflict and competition. In recent years and especially for durable products, competition between domestic and foreign brands for gaining market share has received a considerable attention. This paper study electronic commerce concepts by differential game theory and introduce a novel and comprehensive mode...

This overview of durability in composite wood products will discuss the history and background of increasing the durability of wood composites. Some of the current challenges will be presented. Processing for durable composites will include post-manufacture treatments and in-process treatments. New composites and novel approaches and treatments for durability will be discussed.

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The digitization of durable goods gives firms the ability to monetize and update already purchased products, shifting firms’ focus from pushing consumers toward buying replacement products to locking in consumers through incremental updates. As a first step in understanding the effects of digitization, I investigate consumers’ preferences for product updates in Apple’s app ecosystem. Using a de...

2 Housing belongs to the category of durable consumption goods defined as those that may be used repeatedly or continuously over a period of more than a year, assuming a normal or average rate of physical usage. The U.S. residential housing market has gone through important changes since the mid-1980s. Most noticeably, significant developments have taken place in the housing finance system. Con...

In the presence of a peer-to-peer economy, the option of sharing an item is valuable for consumers. By retaining control over the shareability of its products a monopolist can set a sharing tariff in conjunction with the purchase price of the product, in order to extract state-contingent surplus from consumers: the shareability rent. Using an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous con...

This paper provides a framework for defining an efficient remanufacturing procedure of a generic durable good at the end of its useful life. For many materials, the recycling technology (material recovery) is broadly available. However, the design of most products does not favor the recovery of the value-added in the good. Products designed for optimal marketing and ease of manufacturing are no...