Sentence examples for consumer theory from inspiring English sources

Roberto Espinosa, proprietor of Tacodeli and the breakfast taco interpreter of the moment, espouses a slacker consumer theory of why Austin — a city thick with creative folk, techies, students and politicians — has embraced breakfast tacos.

Researchers apply consumer theory to examine whether digital banking start-ups indeed negatively affect traditional retail banks.

Also, with the extension of consumer theory by [4], utility no longer depends only on the quantity of goods but also on the characteristics of these goods.

The estimation of a discrete choice experiment model complying with consumer theory axioms allows estimation of the welfare implications of alternative policies.

This issue of placing human capital choices within a lifetime framework would be further developed by Becker in his attempts to reformulate consumer theory by adjusting it to encompass the allocation of time and goods within the household ([1965]).

(Note the similarity with the notion of 'complementary goods' in consumer theory in economics, where it is argued that the utility of some goods is dependent on the quantity of some other goods, as in the case of pencils and erasers, or shoe polish and shoes of the same color).

Now the "hands of consumers" theory is turned on its head: at the same time that the poor spend most of whatever income they have on consumer items, the safety net's redistribution reduces their total spending because it reduces their total family income.

Baumeister's theory is that women are the producers but not consumers of sex, and men are the consumers and not producers of sex … Baumeister is trying to make this women-producers/men-consumers theory fit the evidence that more gender equality leads to more sex, but really, he fails utterly.

We also posit that these effects, compared to the abundant research results in developed countries, are of a similar (consumer culture theory) or even greater magnitude (signaling theory) in developing countries.

This paper introduces an improvement on these methodologies by using the principles of consumer behaviour theory and the analysis capabilities of game theory to develop a dedicated purpose-built modelling tool for the analysis of intermodal competition within the operator's revenue function.

It is well known that there is a gap between the constant-utility price index based on consumer demand theory and the official Consumer Price Index (CPI) published by the Statistics Bureau.