In less than a year, on January 1, 2014, tens of millions of Americans, along with members of Congress, will participate in a grand experiment in consumer choice: They will select health insurance Read More »
Deceiving the elderly is not a new problem, but it is one that has been growing in prevalence. To illustrate, financial abuse of elders aged 65 and older has risen from a low of 8% in 1950 to an Read More »
In the short story that, in the Portuguese translation, lends the title of the book — Absolutamente nada e outras histórias (Absolutely nothing and other stories) —, Robert Walser introduces us Read More »
This article examines consumer vulnerability in online transactions where e-retailers implement an algorithmic dynamic pricing (ADP) strategy reflected by real-time price adjustments. Based on an Read More »
In the era of Big data, pricing strategies of retail websites are evolving towards online dynamic pricing, which consists in frequent price changes for goods and services in order to maximize sales Read More »