The Impact of Covid-19 Induced Decline in Consumer Durables and Mobility on NO2 Emission in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Syed Hasanat Shah ◽  
Waqar Ameer ◽  
Guo Wei Jiao ◽  
Azka Amin
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Durables ◽  
The Impact

Impact of personality factors on purchase and adoption of consumer durables with advanced technology

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ullal Manohar Bhat ◽  
Dhananjay Bapat ◽  
Amit Mookerjee
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Buying Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify critical personality traits affecting and influencing buying behaviour in high involvement consumer durables. It also intends to guide practitioners in selecting appropriate marketing frameworks, consumer segments and processes considering the characteristics of consumer behaviour in developing economies. Design/methodology/approach It systematically reviews the literature on consumer personality traits, its measurement and related consumer buying behaviour. It uses data collected from potential car buyers at various car showrooms across the Indian subcontinent. The authors have worked with the online survey firm Qualtrics, to gather a data set of 328 car purchase intenders’ responses to their validated survey. The model was tested using the SmartPLS. Findings The personality traits of imagination, agreeableness and social factors positively influenced attitude towards automobiles with advanced technology. Further, in line with the theory of planned behaviour, it is seen that a positive attitude towards advanced technology and design for automobiles makes a person more willing to pay for the same. Research limitations/implications The study is confined to consumers intending to purchase a car, who are Indian residents. Originality/value It adds to the comparatively lesser body of study on the impact of personality traits on intentions and attitudes in high involvement consumer durable purchases. Further, it serves as an empirical examination of the adoption of new technologies, in the context of high involvement consumer durables. For practicing managers, it provides a reference for deciding future development directions and approaches related to the effective market launch strategies and commercialization of advanced technology automobiles in India.

scholarly journals Price Comparison, Price Competition, And The Effects Of ShopBots

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten A. Passyn ◽  
Memo Diriker ◽  
Robert B. Settle
Keyword(s):  
Price Competition ◽  
Price Dispersion ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Future Price ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
The Past ◽  
Price Comparison ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
The Impact

Two ShopBots were used to determine high-to-low price dispersion for identical models of 25 consumer durables, in 2007 and again in 2011, revealing substantial but declining price dispersion ratios. A survey of 1,135 American online shoppers revealed their dependence on ShopBots and frequency of other online shopping actions. Typical respondent reported they "very often" used search sites to locate what they wanted. Nearly 30 percent used the most often named price comparison site, Yahoo! Shopping, in the past year, suggesting substantial potential for future price rationalization. Several customer relationship management tools online merchants might use to avoid the resulting direct price competition are discussed. Finally, the impact of m-commerce, tablets, and apps on online price comparison behavior is explored.

Impact of COVID-19 on the perception of Indian investors towards investment in equity fund

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050040
Author(s):  
Kishore Kumar Das ◽  
Rupsa Mahapatra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Equity Fund ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Moving Consumer Goods ◽  
World Nation ◽  
One Year ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Impact

During the post demonetization and GST, Indian economy was struggling continuously to recover from the economic crisis. In the financial year 2019–2020, GDP rate fell from 7% to 5.4% which is about 18.20%. BSE Sensex index was 42273 as on January 20th of 2020 but on April 8, 2020, it was 29894. During the Financial year 2019–2020, a reduction of 26% in mid cap index was observed, but at the same time, sensitive index reduced by 22%. These things affect the share market and financial stability of people. The stock market over the last one-year became volatile and crashed. To handle the downwards economy, Government took the initiative and announced deep tax cuts for businesses in the month of August 2019. But in the beginning of the year 2020, there was another sluggish phase which stubborn the economy. This time, it was a virus, named as COVID-19(coronavirus), which created a pandemic situation and spread all over the world. Nation-wide lock down was announced to fight with COVID-19 as there was no vaccine introduced. Starting from agriculture to textile, apparel, automotive, aviation, hotels and restaurants, poultry, chemicals, consumer durables, entertainment, sports, FMCG (fast moving consumer goods), pharmaceutical, ecommerce, IT and moreover corporate sectors were adversely affected due to this pandemic and lock down rules. Therefore, this paper focuses on the impact of corona on the perception of Indian investors towards investment in equity fund.

scholarly journals A Study On Impact Of White Goods Towards consumers Preference

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 300-315
Author(s):  
Dr. S. Vijay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Distribution Network ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Large Distribution ◽  
White Goods

The market’s level of competition has risen as a result of the advent of the overseas white goods industry. With rising earnings, dual-income families, changing lifestyles, credit availability, greater consumer knowledge, and the introduction of new models by Indian and multinational companies, India’s consumer durable sector is riding the crest of the country’s economic boom. As the Durable market is growing rapidly, an understanding of the consumer behavior regarding the characteristic of consumers in influencing their buying behavior is crucial. Consumer requirements of Air-condition, Washing machine and Refrigerator are at present not limited to its basic function but also on other values like – efficiency, ease of use and comfort. The consumer durables industry is marked by the growth of multinational corporations (MNCs), exchange offers, discounts, and fierce competition. MNCs have a 65 percent market share in the consumer durables industry. The expanding Indian middle class is a major focus for multinational corporations. They compete on the basis of a firm grasp on the local market, well-known brands, and a large distribution network, whereas Indian companies compete on the basis of a firm grasp on the local market, well-known brands, and a large distribution network. Consumer durables penetration, on the other hand, is still low in India. At this juncture, this study has been undertaken for to find out the impact and reality of white goods market in India.

scholarly journals Some Tests for Differences in Consumption Patterns: The Impact of Remittances Using Household Income and Expenditure Survey Data of Pakistan 1987-88

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (4II) ◽  
pp. 699-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohail J. Malik ◽  
Naeem Sarwar
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
Expenditure Survey ◽  
Economic Development And Growth ◽  
Current Consumption ◽  
Utilisation Pattern ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Consumption Demand

It is argued generally that the observed pattern of use of remittances! by emigrant families reduces their effectiveness for economic development and growth. A large school of thought believes that a considerable portion of the remittance money is spent on raising current consumption, in making unproductive investment in real estate such as residential houses, and in acquiring consumer durables, etc. Such expenditure, apart from being inflationary in nature, also has a strong demonstration effect on the consumption patterns of families that do not receive remittances. Another aspect of the alleged consumption-oriented use of remittances is the relatively high import content of the consumption demand generated by remitted funds. This has the adverse implication of offsetting some of the balance of payments gains. There is, therefore, a need to critically examine the utilisation pattern of remittances in terms of statistically testing for differences in consumption behaviour between households that receive remittances and those that do not. This study attempts such an analysis based on the data from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey of 1987-88.

scholarly journals The Impact of Poverty on the Environment: Surprising Findings from the Indian Case

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Siddhartha Mitra ◽  
Raadhika Paul
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Brundtland Commission ◽  
The Impact

In the 1980s a powerful school of thought, propagated by the Brundtland Commission Report and seconded by powerful think tanks, developed which asserted that poverty was a major cause for environmental degradation. This implied that significant alleviation of poverty would also substantially reduce environmental degradation. Some reasons were given for this view, prominent among these being the compulsion of poorer households to mine natural capital to meet their needs, sometimes in a dirty manner. In course of time, a less recognized counter-school emerged which pointed out the flaws in the Brundtland hypothesis: the greater gasoline consumption of richer households, their greater possession of consumer durables sourced from natural capital, and the higher power of the rich to mine limited and open access natural capital for commercial gain, among others. The debate needs to be obviously resolved through quantitative studies, hitherto lacking in the Indian case. Using results from NSSO data for 3 recent years and 4 sources of dirty fuel we show that there is a general tendency for the non-poor to consume more of these fuels than the poor. This is a surprising result and it shows that poverty alleviation, though desirable, is probably not even a partial cure for environmental degradation. Some explanations for this result, based on the relative magnitudes of clean fuel consumption by the non-poor and poor, are provided.

scholarly journals The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bradshaw ◽  
Kenneth Cooke ◽  
Christine Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Social Security Policy ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
The Impact

AbstractSocial security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and compare these with the living standards of families with low incomes from work. The measures of living standards used are income, expenditure and the availability of consumer durables. The implications of the findings for social security policy are discussed.

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