{"title":"Optimal Early-Bird Discounts and the Challenges of Diversion","authors":"Per Kristian Alnes","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2396804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2396804","url":null,"abstract":"Variable pricing and early-bird discounts can shift some demand or the time of purchase from higher-priced periods to lower-priced periods without increasing the total demand. This diversion effect...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"UK Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Auto-Renewal Contract Attributes","authors":"Eleanya Nduka, Frisk Zhang","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2376420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2376420","url":null,"abstract":"Firms and consumers widely utilize auto-renewal contracts (ARCs) due to their convenience. However, significant issues associated with ARCs indicate the need for policy intervention to reflect how ...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"192 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sam Williams, Anthony J. Glass, Madeleine Matos, Thomas Elder, David Arnett
{"title":"The UK Productivity Puzzle: A Survey of the Literature and Expert Views","authors":"Sam Williams, Anthony J. Glass, Madeleine Matos, Thomas Elder, David Arnett","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2367818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2367818","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2008, the UK’s productivity has stagnated, leading to the widely debated “productivity puzzle”. Understanding this phenomenon and its drivers is crucial for managers and policymakers. This ar...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141586573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Best Paper Prize","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2348937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2348937","url":null,"abstract":"Published in International Journal of the Economics of Business (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141512010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: Four Recent Books.","authors":"Mark V. Pauly","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2343172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2343172","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews four recent books on insurance economics. One of them is a comprehensive textbook, one a discussion of the financial aspects of insurance reserving, and the other two (with a com...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140936494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Taicir Mezghani, Fatma Ben Hamadou, Mouna Boujelbène, Souha Boutouria
{"title":"Do Green Bonds Affect Extreme Spillover and Hedging Effects Across Stocks and Commodities?","authors":"Taicir Mezghani, Fatma Ben Hamadou, Mouna Boujelbène, Souha Boutouria","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2336648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2336648","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the extreme connectedness network among Green bonds, stocks and commodities and its implications for portfolio diversification during the turbulent periods. To this end, we ...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insurer’s Risk-Taking Behavior in India: Does Board Matter?","authors":"Barkha Goyal, Rachita Gulati","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2320455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2320455","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the board’s role in shaping insurers’ risk-taking using data of 49 Indian insurance firms from 2014 to 2021. We captured the insurer’s risk using four proxy measures: underw...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140146779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Attractive People Get a Better Deal? An Experimental Study","authors":"Lyudmyla Starostyuk, Yan Lang, Kay-Yut Chen","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2024.2304417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2024.2304417","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of our research is to shed light on the existence of an effect of seeing the images of human faces (i.e. “a face effect”) on economic decision-making behavior. We conduct a series of contr...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139517295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hedonic Decomposition of Beer Prices: Consumer Ratings and Quantity Discounts","authors":"Antonis A. Michis","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2023.2286027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2023.2286027","url":null,"abstract":"A hedonic regression framework is proposed for evaluating the determinants of beer prices and consumer ratings. This study specifically addresses the endogeneity problem associated with the impact ...","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"9 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of Edmund Phelps, My Journeys in Economic Theory New York: Columbia University Press, 2023","authors":"Peter Zweifel","doi":"10.1080/13571516.2023.2271274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2023.2271274","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis review argues that Edmund Phelps in fact undertook one journey, which led him to the theme of “flourishing,” meaning that workers derive satisfaction from their job. He sees flourishing people rather than scientists and entrepreneurs as the ultimate source of innovation and hence economic growth, a topic that has occupied his mind from the beginning of his brilliant career. The book makes for fascinating reading—and in passing traces the new Macroeconomics pioneered by its author.KEYWORDS: Microeconomic foundations of macroeconomicspersistence of unemployment and inflationisland parableflourishinginnovationJEL CLASSIFICATIONS: A13B22D21D63D82E24E63I30J28J64O11O12O31O41Y3 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":45470,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of the Economics of Business","volume":"56 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}