Browsing by Subject "Consumer behaviour"

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    • Examining public acceptance of autonomous mobility 

      Caulfield, Brian (2020)
      Over the last decade, the technology adopted for the automation of transportation has advanced at a pace that now the emergence of Autonomous Vehicles (AV’s) might not be as far away as it was thought a few years ago. ...

    • Testing the permanent income hypothesis: the Irish evidence 

      Roche, Maurice J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      We investigate whether the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) is consistent with Irish data and find that it holds for about 50 per cent of consumers. We hypothesise that worsening borrowing conditions lead agents to consume ...

    • The misperception of inflation by Irish consumers 

      Duffy, David; Lunn, Peter D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)
      Perceptions and forecasts of inflation have the potential to impact on a range of economic outcomes. We reveal large, systematic overestimation of inflation by Irish consumers, which varies by social group. In contrast ...