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Can consumption generate happiness, or is it time to question this premise and seek a deeper understanding of the true pillars of human achievement? To answer this question, we examined how consumption is represented as a pathway to happiness, and the factors that influence this link.…

This paper addresses the ethical complexities surrounding the use of personal images on social media platforms, particularly Facebook. The increasing reliance on user-generated content highlights critical gaps in user awareness of the legal and ethical ramifications of their online interactions. This research aims to illuminate…

The rise of online sales post-COVID has fueled domain name misuse, sparking conflicts between trademark owners and cybersquatters. This study delves into the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), focusing on how "bad faith" is defined and applied in domain name disputes. By examining over 200…

Drawing on behavioral insights and heuristics, this study demonstrates the ways in which more realistic decision-making diverges from the classic homo economicus model. Employing the New-Keynesian behavioral model proposed by De Grauwe (2012, 2019) and parameters from Jang and Sacht (2016), the analysis reveals a…

This study revisits the predictive capacity of the yield curve for recession signals in the industrial sectors of Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis considers the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania as reference economies for the region. Yield curves, historically reliable indicators for downturns,…

Sport has a great and indisputable link with the tourism sector, which helps to boost local, regional, and national development. That said, sports tourism has been gaining an increasingly important place in the tourist offer. This is due to the fact that sport has a…

Understanding consumer stimuli is urgently needed to craft timely and evidence-based marketing strategies. The existing literature reveals a gap in consumer behavior studies, especially in applying psychology to consumer behavior. This enables the authors to explore the dual role of consumer behavior using a conditional…

This study is based on analyzing travel decisions, influencers and the impact exerted on tourist travel decision making among Peruvian university students. The research was characterized by having a quantitative approach. A survey was applied to 385 university students in Peru and it had 13…

This study examines the transmission of capital-based macroprudential policy in the Romanian economy using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with a monopolistic banking sector. The need for such research arises from the limited focus on smaller non-euro area economies, which face unique macroeconomic…

In every economy in its productive processes there are wastes that can be but are not used, hence models such as those proposed by the circular economy, allow to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and that become polluting agents of…