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Complex ordinal cues are extremely rare in commercial marketing practice, plausibly because commercial practitioners agree with the academic research community regarding their effectiveness, especially in FMCG markets.
“Complex ordinal cues are extremely rare in commercial marketing practice-quite plausibly because commercial practitioners agree with the academic research community regarding their effectiveness, especially in FMCG markets [29,30].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sunstein, C. R.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sunstein, Cass R.
- ORCID
- Sunstein, Cass R.
- Venue
- Food Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-02
- Volume
- 99
- Pages
- 101984
- ISSN
- 0306-9192 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3092189092
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 4.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Food Policy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Consumer behavior in food and health
- Keywords
- food labeling, willingness to pay, welfare effects, consumer information, behavioral biases, present bias, optimism bias, endogenous preferences, breakeven analysis, health outcomes, economic savings
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