Sentences with phrase «effect on consumer behavior»

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Today's financial market volatility, combined with great political uncertainty both at home and abroad, will undoubtedly have an effect on consumer confidence and perhaps even our customers» attitudes and behavior.

If changing a company's forecast tax rate from 35 % to 21 % is a first order effect on earnings, what remains to be appreciated are the second order effects: the effects of the tax cuts on corporate and consumer behavior.

That's the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Marketing Research: «Healthy Choice: The Effect of Simplified Point - of - Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food Choice Behavior,» co-authored by Hristina Nikolova, the Coughlin Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and J. Jeffrey Inman, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty and the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

-- The purpose of the program is to provide grants to public and private institutions of higher education to carry out projects which will improve understanding of the effects of consumer behavior on energy consumption and conservation.

«The recent drop in gasoline prices once again shows that consumers have a short memory when it comes to the effect that gas prices have on their shopping behavior,» said Patrick Olsen, Cars.com's managing editor.

Consumer behavior analysis is the study of individual, group, or organization and the process utilized by them to purchase, select, use and dispose of the products, services, ideas, experiences, etc. and effect of these choices on the society in general.

If enough consumers choose deep - discounting over time, always prioritizing price over the intangible benefits of other retailers and / or ignoring the effect on the local economy, those behaviors could lead to a single deep discounter getting too much of the market share, leading to monopsony or near - monopson, which has every likelihood of biting book publishers (indie or trad) in the rear due to that monopsony's ability to dictate terms.

In response to the comment below - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied article titled Monopoly Money: The Effect of Payment Coupling and Form on Spending Behavior runs 13 pages but on the first page offers «Do consumers spend differently when using one payment mode relative to another mode?

And, while scores have no consistent effect on premiums (meaning you can not predict if certain credit behavior will result in a high or low premium), there are steps consumers can take to help avoid paying more for insurance:

(Sec. 265) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a research program to: (1) identify the factors affecting consumer actions to conserve energy and make improvements in energy efficiency; and (2) make grants to institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use, the potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits, the ability to reduce GHG emissions through changes in energy consumption habits, increasing public awareness of federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs, and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

Through the program the Secretary will make grants to public and private institutions of higher education to study the effects of consumer behavior on total energy use; potential energy savings from changes in consumption habits; the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through changes in energy consumption habits; increase public awareness of Federal climate adaptation and mitigation programs; and the potential for alterations in consumer behavior to further American energy independence.

However, according to an analysis by Paul Murtaugh and Michael Schlax («Reproduction and the Carbon Legacies of Individuals», Global Environmental Change, 19:14 - 20, 2009), avoiding the birth of a single child has a much a greater effect on reducing CO2 emissions than environmentally conscious consumer behavior.

In a study published earlier this year in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers looked at the effects of eye contact on buying habits of consumers.

Also importantly, the mere presence of the sponsored ads (assuming appropriate copy) created an additional stimulus to the consumer and further created a positive exposure effect on the consumer's behavior.

More research into the effects of actual self - congruity on consumers» perception of and behavior toward brands is merited.

Other important factors affecting the consumer benefits of the Closing Disclosure include how much it would affect whether consumers recognize those changes or how they react to them and the effects on creditors» and settlement service providers» behavior.