This research analyzes consumer privacy issues pertaining to the newly developing wireless marketing context, specifically, wireless advertising messaging (WAM). We develop a conceptual framework named as DIGs to assess the efficacy of industry self-regulation, government legislation, and technological solutions in ensuring consumer privacy in WAM. In addition to enhancing our theoretical under...

The growth of the Internet has led to a dramatic increase in the number of consumer or “user” product ratings, which are posted online by individuals who have consumed a good, and are available to other individuals as they make decisions about which products to purchase. These ratings have the potential to substantially improve the match between products and consumers, however the extent to whi...

t he objective of this study is using the markov switching vector autoregressive method and regime dependent impulse response functions to measure the pass-through of world food prices to consumer price index in iran from 1990 to 2013. with respect to information criteria and the log-likelihood ratio statistic, msia(2)-var(1) model has a better fit to data than other models. the magnitude of th...

The rent of shelter accounts for approximately a third of the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Using a new housing rent index (RRI) developed by Ambrose, Coulson, and Yoshida (2014), we modify the CPI and compute the Taylor rule for the period from 2000 to 2010. With this timely rent index, Taylor rule becomes more consistent with the Federal funds rate than the conventional calculations. However, t...

This article studies the influence of product groupings on consumer preferences. Specifically, it is proposed that when each product in two groups has an equal chance of a gain, consumers prefer to choose from a group that appears more contagious (e.g., products arranged close together, similarly, or symmetrically). However, when each product in two groups has an equal chance of a loss, consume...

I develop a multi-country multi-industry model of trade that features heterogeneous consumers with non-homothetic preferences. I use the model to quantify the measurement errors in the welfare gains estimates caused by the assumption of a representative consumer (ARC). First, I reduce the world level of all trade costs by 15% and find that ARC overestimates (underestimates) the gains of the poo...