Does Aggregate Buyer Satisfaction affect Household Consumption Growth?

Claes Fornell, Paul Damien, Marcin Kacperczyk and Michel Wedel

No 1802, DOCFRADIS Working Papers from Catedra Fundación Ramón Areces de Distribución Comercial

Abstract: This study finds that measures of the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index are related to Personal Consumption Growth, controlling for typical predictors that are commonly included in the Index of Leading Indicators. In assessing the relationship, this study uses a Bayesian mean-variance regression that addresses problems of small sample sizes and non-normal distributions by considering both parameter and distributional uncertainty in a semi-parametric framework. Importantly, this paper introduces a new psychometric measure to assess consumer satisfaction; variants of this measure are gaining acceptance in the private and public sectors in Scandinavia, China, Japan, Korea, the United States and in other countries.

Keywords: Customer satisfaction; Personal consumption growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2018-06, Revised 2018-06
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