Search results for " consumer"

Peer to Consumer Lending

2022

Peer to consumer lending represents an alternative form of financing characterized, within the crowdfunding genus, by the collecting of credit offers to be matched with borrowing demand through a digital platform. The essay focuses on legal analysis of some aspects of the structure and the functioning of lending marketplaces operating in the sector at stake. The Author argues how this business model – especially when the phenomenon involves consumers and, more generally, non-professionals counterparts – may be critical as regards to the classical cathegories and concepts ruling the lending/borrowing discourse.

Acerca de la redefinición de la autonomía privada en la sociedad tecnológica

2018

La sociedad tecnológica del siglo XXI exige una redefinición de la autonomía de la voluntad como principio vertebrador del Derecho privado. Este artículo introduce una reflexión sobre la actualidad de este principio a la luz de dos fenómenos: la creciente vulnerabilidad del consumidor en la contratación de productos y servicios complejos y el incierto panorama resultante de la implementación de la tecnología blockchain a las transacciones contractuales inter privatos. Technological Society in the 21st Century requires a redefinition of principle of private autonomy. This essay analyses this issue referring to the problems of vulnerable consumer and application of blockchain technology to pr…

LA INFLUENCIA DE LA IMPLICACIÓN CON EL ANUNCIO EN EL PROCESO DE FORMACIÓN DE ACTITUDES

2001

Taking as its core the attitude toward the advertisement, this study attempts to determine the mechanisms through which advertising influences consumers' attitudes and buying behaviour. These mechanisms are analysed in terms of involvement with the message and with the execution of the ad, and in terms of the strength of the arguments used in the ad. The study finds that the involvement with the message and with the execution of the ad, determinates the antecedents and consequences of the ad. But the strength of the arguments does not explain these relations. En la presente investigación se pretende tomando como núcleo central de la misma la actitud hacia el anuncio, determinar los mecanism…

RAPPRESENTANZA E DIRITTO EUROPEO

2011

Il lavoro propone una riflessione diretta a cogliere l'influenza che i dati "europei" offrono ad una ricostruzione della rappresentanza. In particolare si parte dalla questione relativa ad una possibile rilevanza del fenomeno rappresentativo nell'ambito dei rapporti c.d. consumeristici, interrogandosi sul se e come vi sia spazio in regole che hanno nella qualità delle parti il loro ambito di riferimento per un fenomeno di sostituzione, qual è la rappresentanza. Viene così analizzato il dibattito interno relativo al concetto di parte, così come emerge nella riflessione sul negozio rappresentativo, per poi esaminare la questione dall'angolo visuale del consumatore, alla luce di quella che app…

Promoting Food Waste Reduction at Primary Schools. A Case Study

2021

Food waste (FW) has recently attracted the interest of different institutions and has been the focus of many studies due to its important environmental, social and economic impact. This paper aims to analyze whether a didactic intervention, consisting of informing teachers and pupils and involving pupils in reducing FW, could bring about changes in the level of knowledge and attitude towards FW and in the amount of FW generated during the mid-morning break and lunch at schools. This study was conducted at a public Primary School in Valencia (Spain). Subtle changes in the level of knowledge and attitude towards FW were detected in teachers and pupils after the intervention. Around 30% of FW …

Should conference pricing mechanisms incorporate options?

2016

The provision of many services is often characterized by demand uncertainty, as, at the time of purchase, consumers may not be completely informed about their valuation for the service or the possibility to utilize the service when it will actually be provided. For such reason, service providers implement several pricing mechanisms to maximize their profits in presence of consumer uncertainty and heterogeneity. A commonly adopted mechanism is intertemporal price discrimination, under which service providers charge different prices to consumers buying at different times. For instance, a lower price is usually offered to consumer buying early in advance, whereas higher price is practiced to l…

Consumer’s participation in the local organic box schemes in England: Is it about ethics?

Quality determinants of avocado fruit consumption in italy. Implications for small farms

2018

In recent years there has been an increasing consumer interest towards tropical fruits due to the desire of consumers for healthy eating while experiencing new and exotic flavours. Within this consumer trend, avocado fruit presents great potential in order to meet the requirements desired by consumers due to its high nutritional value and particular quality characteristics. The aim of the present study is to understand which quality determinants influence consumers’ decision making to consume avocado fruit in Italy. In the literature, avocado is a fruit few investigate from a consumers’ quality perception perspective. Therefore, understanding consumer preference for avocado fruit may be con…

Local economies and consumer participation: the organic food fairs

2012

New consumption habits stand out against the idea of a rational consumer, which is aimed at maximizing utility according to budget constraint. Presently, people have the tendency to behave differently according to various purchase opportunities; a significant role is played by both ethical sides and selfless motivations. These new trends fall within the context of a new social paradigm that foresees postmodern society’s rise. Consumers have the tendency to use the market as an arena in which political, ethical and environmental issues may arise, starting a new trend of an alternative consumption called “political consumerism”. In this paper we’ll try to understand how new consumption habits…

Wine and Its Legality-A Survey to Know the Consumer Opinions on the Activities of Sicilian Wine Companies Operating on Lands Confiscated from the Maf…

2014

The current guidelines of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy face the agricultural sector in the position of the backbone for the economic development of rural areas and regions with difficult economic differentiation. The EU Common Agricultural Policy defines agriculture as “multifunctional” and among the different roles and functions expected, there is also the “social function”, defined as the ability that the farm has to generate services with respect to a population with risk of social exclusion. This paper investigated all the agricultural initiatives with social impacts that were carried in the lands confiscated from the organized crime (called mafia), mainly in the South …