10 results on '"Jura Liaukonyte"'
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2. Personalized pricing and price fairness
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Jura Liaukonyte, Timothy J. Richards, and Nadia A. Streletskaya
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TheoryofComputation_MISCELLANEOUS ,Economics and Econometrics ,Psychological pricing ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) ,TheoryofComputation_GENERAL ,Price discrimination ,Experimental economics ,Microeconomics ,Negotiation ,Order (exchange) ,0502 economics and business ,Industrial relations ,Sustainability ,Economics ,050211 marketing ,050207 economics ,Limit price ,media_common ,Inequity aversion - Abstract
Mobile web technology enables discriminatory, or personalized, pricing for many more consumer good categories than has traditionally been the case. Setting prices according to individual valuations, however, generates adverse consumer reaction unless consumers are invited to participate in the price-formation process. Consumer perceptions of price fairness are key to the sustainability of any discriminatory pricing regime. Perceptions of price fairness, in turn, are hypothesized to be shaped by “self-interested inequity aversion” in which prices tend to be regarded as unfair, and purchase probabilities fall, if others are perceived to pay a lower price, while prices tend to be regarded as more fair, and consumers more likely to purchase, if inequity is in the buyers favor. Our experimental data also shows that the implications of inequity aversion for sellers can be at least partially reversed if consumers are allowed to participate in the price-formation process by negotiating the price they pay. The primary implication of our findings is that, in order to be viable, any system of discriminatory pricing for consumer goods should invite consumers to have a stake in the price they pay. Such participatory pricing may provide one way out of the current trap of Hi–Lo, or promotional, pricing that neither retailers nor manufacturers regard as sustainable.
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- 2016
3. Absence labels: How does information about production practices impact consumer demand?
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Harry M. Kaiser, Jura Liaukonyte, and Nadia A. Streletskaya
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Food industry ,Physiology ,Economics ,Social Sciences ,Wine ,Certification ,Infographics ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Information system ,Food Industry ,Marketing ,Winemaking ,Multidisciplinary ,Alcoholic Beverages ,Commerce ,Eukaryota ,Chemistry ,Research Design ,Physical Sciences ,Medicine ,Graphs ,Research Article ,Chemical Elements ,Computer and Information Sciences ,Experimental Economics ,Science ,Product Labeling ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Beverages ,Sulfites ,Humans ,Production (economics) ,Consumer behaviour ,Nutrition ,Information Services ,business.industry ,Data Visualization ,Chemical Compounds ,Food Consumption ,Organisms ,Fungi ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Consumer Behavior ,Organic certification ,Yeast ,United States ,Diet ,Physiological Processes ,business ,Sulfur - Abstract
Absence labels promote the absence of a particular ingredient or production practice. Consumers usually perceive organic labels as an umbrella absence label for a variety of ingredients and production practices. Such organic labels often use similar language but are based on different certification requirements. For example, both organic wine and wine made with organic grapes are available to U.S. consumers, but little is known about consumer preferences for such labeled products when information about the certification standards is available. Moreover, while absence labels, which advertise the absence of certain attributes or practices, are prevalent on the market, little is known about how information on conventional production practices impacts consumer behavior. Using an artefactual experiment with 128 adult non-student participants, we investigate consumer demand for conventional wine, organic wine, and wine made with organic grapes when information about production standards is provided to participants with and without details regarding conventional winemaking practices. We find that while both organic labels carry a significant and very similar willingness-to-pay (WTP) premium, information about certification standards and conventional wine making practices can reduce WTP for all wines. Providing information about the two organic certification standards reduces consumer WTP for both absence labeled and conventional wine categories. This effect largely disappears for organic wine, but not wine made with organic grapes, when information about conventional wine-making practices is also provided.
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- 2019
4. Consumer Response to 'Contains' and 'Free of' Labeling: Evidence from Lab Experiments
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Bradley J. Rickard, Jura Liaukonyte, Nadia A. Streletskaya, and Harry M. Kaiser
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Economics and Econometrics ,Consumer response ,Subject (documents) ,Advertising ,Development ,language.human_language ,Food labeling ,Willingness to pay ,On demand ,Food policy ,language ,Economics ,Product (category theory) ,Marketing - Abstract
Using a lab experiment with 351 adult non-student subjects, we investigate the impact of labels and secondary information on willingness to pay (WTP) for foods that use various ingredients and processes that have been the subject of food policy discussions. We find a distinct asymmetry of WTP sensitivity between 'Contains X' and 'Free of X' labels with negatively-framed secondary information. The 'Free of X' label has an impact only when secondary information is provided, and the negative impact of 'Contains X' is mitigated by secondary information. We also consider how the results of our study can inform the ongoing debate about mandatory food labeling regulations in the United States: if mandatory labeling is adopted, providing additional information about what the product contains would significantly lessen the negative impact on demand. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.
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- 2013
5. Strategic Obfuscation and Price Fairness
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William J. Allender, Jura Liaukonyte, and Timothy J. Richards
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Microeconomics ,Pricing strategies ,Incentive ,Transparency (market) ,Price mechanism ,Economics ,Mid price ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY ,TheoryofComputation_GENERAL ,Price discrimination ,Experimental economics ,Industrial organization ,Inequity aversion - Abstract
Firms are increasingly using technology to enable targeted, or "personalized" pricing strategies. In settings where prices are transparent to all consumers, however, there is the potential that inter-personal price differences will be perceived as inherently unfair. In response, firms may strategically obfuscate their prices so that direct interpersonal comparisons are more difficult. In this article, we conduct an experimental analysis of strategic obfuscation in an environment in which price transparency varies exogenously and endogenously, and consumers are inherently inequity-averse. We find that obfuscating price information among buyers can be effective in alleviating peer-induced fairness concerns, and increase the likelihood that price offers are accepted. Sellers understand that buyers are inequity-averse, and that buyers are aware of the incentives present to obfuscate price offers. As a result, equilibrium prices are higher when a firm chooses to obfuscate prices, but they remain constrained by perceptions of distributional fairness between buyers and sellers.
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- 2016
6. Economic and health effects of fruit and vegetable advertising: Evidence from lab experiments
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Harry M. Kaiser, Bradley J. Rickard, Abigail M. Okrent, Timothy J. Richards, and Jura Liaukonyte
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Economics and Econometrics ,Sociology and Political Science ,Consumer response ,Food marketing ,Public policy ,Advertising ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Development ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,Subject Pool ,Willingness to pay ,Fruits and vegetables ,medicine ,Economics ,Marketing ,Health policy ,Food Science - Abstract
This study investigates consumer response to various types of advertising for fruits and vegetables—a food category which health officials uniformly agree is significantly under-consumed in the United States. Using an adult, non-student subject pool of 271 participants in an economic experiment, consumers’ response to different types of fruit and vegetable advertising is measured empirically. This study finds that broad-based advertising, which is generic advertising for the entire fruit and vegetable category, increases consumer willingness to pay by an average of 24.6%. The simulation model shows that broad-based advertising for fruits and vegetables, either alone or as a hybrid with individual commodity-specific campaigns (e.g., apple advertising), would reduce average caloric intake per person by approximately 1800 kcal per year. The results of this study may contribute to new public policy initiatives that aim to reduce diet-related illnesses and obesity, which have become increasingly prevalent in the United States.
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- 2012
7. Consumer Response to Commodity-Specific and Broad-Based Promotion Programs for Fruits and Vegetables
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Bradley J. Rickard, Jura Liaukonyte, Timothy J. Richards, and Harry M. Kaiser
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Economics and Econometrics ,Agricultural commodity ,Willingness to pay ,Consumer response ,Fruits and vegetables ,Economics ,Experimental economics ,Marketing ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Agricultural economics ,Valuation (finance) - Abstract
Generic promotion activities have traditionally been used for individual agricultural commodities, yet there is renewed interest in implementing a mandatory "broad-based" promotion program for all fruits and vegetables. Here we use data from an experiment that introduce subjects to various promotional efforts for fruits and vegetables to estimate the shift and rotational effects of advertising. Econometric results indicate that commodity-specific promotional efforts may not be effective at increasing demand for fruits and vegetables. After controlling for various demographic differences among treatments, our results show that consumers' valuation of fruits and vegetables was highest among subjects exposed to broad-based advertisements. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.
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- 2011
8. Economic and Nutritional Implications from Changes in U.S. Agricultural Promotion Efforts
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Bradley J. Rickard, Jura Liaukonyte, and Shuay-Tsyr Ho
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Consumption (economics) ,Economics and Econometrics ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,advertising, export promotion, horticulture, nutrient intake, policy reform, simulation model, Agribusiness, International Relations/Trade, Marketing, Q13, Q17, Q18 ,Subsidy ,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Domestic market ,Agricultural economics ,Promotion (rank) ,Agriculture ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,050202 agricultural economics & policy ,Taxpayer ,050207 economics ,business ,Trade promotion ,Agribusiness ,media_common - Abstract
Promotion programs that subsidize advertising for exported agricultural products continue to be used despite much criticism that they are an inefficient use of taxpayer money. At the same time, others have advocated for an increase in funds to support domestic advertising for fruits and vegetables. We investigate the economic and nutritional effects from changes in both export and domestic promotion expenditures for horticultural and nonhorticultural commodities. Simulation results show that even modest decreases in trade promotion expenditures coupled with a corresponding increase in domestic promotion efforts have the capacity to influence domestic market conditions, caloric intake, and nutrient consumption.
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- 2014
9. Information Content of Advertising: Empirical Evidence from the OTC Analgesic Industry
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Simon P. Anderson, Federico Ciliberto, and Jura Liaukonyte
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media_common.quotation_subject ,Advertising ,Ordered probit ,Vertical differentiation ,Content analysis ,Comparative advertising ,Economics ,Quality (business) ,Product (category theory) ,Marketing ,Market share ,Empirical evidence ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,media_common - Abstract
We empirically study the information-persuasion trade-off in advertising using data on the information content of advertisements, which we measure with the number of information cues in ads. We propose a simple theoretical framework to motivate an ordered probit model of information content. We find that stronger vertical differentiation is positively associated with the delivery of more product information in a brand’s advertisements: brands with higher levels of quality include more information cues. Next, comparative advertisements contain significantly more product information than self-promotional advertisements. Finally, brands with higher market shares and brands competing against strong generic substitutes have less information content.
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- 2012
10. Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry
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Simon P. Anderson, Jura Liaukonyte, Régis Renault, and Federico Ciliberto
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Brand image ,Incentive ,Perception ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Comparative advertising ,Liberian dollar ,Economics ,Advertising ,Marketing ,Construct (philosophy) ,media_common - Abstract
We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the brand image of targeted rivals. Data on content and spending for all TV advertisements in OTC analgesics enable us to construct matrices of dollar rival targeting and estimate the structural model. Using brands optimal choices, these attack matrices identify diversion ratios, from which we derive comparative advertising damage measures. We find that comparative advertising causes more damage to the targeted rival than bene fit to the advertiser. We simulate banning comparative advertising to find industry profi ts rise.
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- 2012
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