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The Effects Of Ethnicity, Ethnic Salience And Ethnic Identification On Consumers' Sources Of Information And Purchase Behavior, Patricia Wooten Humphrey
The Effects Of Ethnicity, Ethnic Salience And Ethnic Identification On Consumers' Sources Of Information And Purchase Behavior, Patricia Wooten Humphrey
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine if there were any significant differences in the search and purchase behavior between white and black consumers due to ethnicity, ethnic identification, ethnic salience and ethnic situation.
The sample was chosen from two universities, one predominately white, the other predominately black. Of the 360 questionnaires administered, 345 were usable. The sample was representative of the student population of each university with respect to age, gender, and ethnicity. Statistical techniques used were ANOVAs, t-tests and paired comparisons.
The findings indicate that ethnicity plays an important role in an individual's sources of information used …
Information And Dynamic Adjustment In Life Insurance, Mattias K. Polborn, Mike Hoy, Asha Sadanand
Information And Dynamic Adjustment In Life Insurance, Mattias K. Polborn, Mike Hoy, Asha Sadanand
Department of Economics Research Reports
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Preference For Information And Dynamic Consistency, Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii, Ben Polak
Preference For Information And Dynamic Consistency, Simon Grant, Atsushi Kajii, Ben Polak
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers
We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a dynamically consistent agent always to prefer more informative signals (in single-agent problems). These conditions do not imply recursivity, reduction or independence. We provide a simple definition of dynamically consistent behavior, and we discuss whether an intrinsic information lover (say, an anxious person) is likely to be dynamically consistent.