... downstream effects consumer policy Correspondence may be sent to: [email protected] . 23 10 2017 During the last few decades, agricultural economics has increasingly dealt with topics related to food and consumer decision making, analyzing not only the effect of prices and income on consumer decisions...

...This lecture reviews the economic foundations for consumer policy, including rationales for public constraints on freedom of contract. It emphasises parallels and some possible tensions that exist between competition and consumer policies. The overall theme of the lecture is that economics has much...

... defining how good evidence should look, the chapter underscores that evidence should only inform the political discourse rather than dictate it. better regulation REFIT evidence-based policy consumer policy European Union law Evidence-based policy is a fundamental principle in public governance...

... observations, including violations of consumer protection rules that fall outside the scope of the study. European consumer law European contract law consumer protection comparative law European Union law consumer policy evidence-based policy empirical legal research e-commerce digital law...

...(1) Journal of Consumer Policy 63; Aashish Srivastava, The New EU Consumer Rights Directive: An Empirical Study on Compliance Issues by E- Tailers (2017) 32(4) Journal of Business Law 282; Mary Donnelly and Fidelma Whit, Digital content and consumer protection: An empirical study of supplier...

... consumer research industry sectors consumer roles community building mass consumption consumer culture consumer policy Globalized trade opens up numerous opportunities for corporations to produce and market goods in ways inconceivable in the past. Today there are more affordable goods...

... directive Lisbon Agenda social exclusion risk from consumer law vulnerable consumers collective compensation European Commission consumer policy internal market economic efficiency social exclusion Consumer law has been and still is the spearhead of the European integration process. In a nutshell...

...Table 7.1. Sample of cases in consumer policy Proposal number Contents Lead DG Type of instrument Treaty base Commission adoption date Commission adoption procedure Councilprocedure Sub-group COM[2000]139 General product safety SANCO Directive Art. 95...

...This chapter discusses the distinct paths taken by consumer policy in West Germany and the United States. The Marshall Plan, while certainly instrumental for the speedy recovery of West Germany's economy, was not as effective in transplanting the American model of mass consumption as is often...

...Stephen Weatherill, Consumer Policy In: Evolution of EU Law Edited by: Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca, Oxford University Press. © Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192846556.003.0028 This chapter shows how and why consumer law and policy has developed in the European Union...

... in the empirical investigation and outlines the limitations of the present study, especially concerning the dataset size. European consumer law European consumer contract law consumer protection comparative law European Union Law consumer policy evidence-based policy empirical legal research e-commerce...

...0 23 05 2019 The Union has shared competence wherever it has neither exclusive nor supporting competence (Article 4(1) TFEU). AFSJ agriculture and fisheries consumer policy development cooperation energy policy public health shared competence social policy trans-European networks...

... and perpetuated the transatlantic differences in the politics of mass consumption between the two countries. While public spending and consumer policy remained separate issues in the United States, by the late 1960s, the German government was consciously promoting an approach to the politics of mass consumption...

... between these two major consequences of extending EU consumer law beyond EU borders and the two main objectives of European consumer policy: strengthening the internal market through the removal of barriers, and the achievement of a high level of consumer protection. ⁹⁰ In the case of ASEAN...

.... European consumer law European consumer contract law consumer protection comparative law European Union law consumer policy evidence-based policy empirical legal research e-commerce unfair contract terms Many scholars see the Unfair Contract Terms Directive as the first piece of EU consumer sales...

... with consumer theories, the chapter illustrates a growing trend in both the utilization and enhancement of evidence, transitioning from the E-Commerce Directive to the Consumer Rights Directive. European consumer law European consumer contract law consumer protection consumer policy evidence-based policy...

..., and the visualization of the findings. Finally, the chapter concludes by reflecting upon some of the methodological challenges of the empirical inquiry. European consumer law European contract law consumer Protection comparative law European Union law consumer policy evidence-based policy empirical legal...

... addresses all policy recommendations to the relevant stakeholders, the EU legislator, the Member States, and other groups, such as e-commerce traders or consumer organizations. European consumer law European contract law consumer protection comparative law European Union law consumer policy evidence...

... comparative law European Union law consumer policy Evidence-Based policy Empirical legal Research E-commerce Digital law The previous chapters explored how the European Union and 4 selected European jurisdictions regulate e-commerce business-to-consumer transactions and whether the legislative choices...