I: Key Addresses, Ageing, Children, Competition, Culture, Technology
II: Finance, Design, Family, Food, Housing,
III: Inequality, Politics, Sustainability, Innovation
IV: Ombudsman session, Special sessions, Roundtable

6. Consumers in financial markets
(7 papers, 0.6 MB)

Ahlström, Richard: The emotional impact of severe debts on the individual

Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Helga Dittmar & Vala Jónsdóttir: Psychological predictors of personal debt in Iceland

Järvinen, Raija & Uolevi Lehtinen: Innovative Consumer e-Services in the Financial Sector

Järvinen, Raija & Liisa Peura-Kapanen: Consumers as Private Investors in Financial Markets

Lehtinen, Anna-Riitta: Choice, freedom and responsibility - young consumers in credit markets

Nyhus, Ellen K. & Paul Webley: The relationship between parenting style and adolescents’ future orientation and spending preferences

Tufte, Per Arne & Mary-Ann Stamsø: The demand for private insurance in the Norwegian welfare state - how do people adapt in a typical social-democratic welfare state system?

8. Design and fashion in consumption
(5 papers, 0.5 MB)

Giertz-Mårtenson, Ingrid: Fashion Forecasting – Manipulating or Assisting the Consumer?

Hansson, Lena: Universal Design to Make a Difference

Klepp, Ingun Grimstad: Care and maintenance, a contribution to the planned Western Europe volume of Berg’s Encyclopaedia of World Dress and Fashion

Markkula, Annu: Sustainable Consumption – Sustainable Ways of Consuming Fashion

Ryynänen, Toni: Design, Media and Consumer Culture? – The representations of design in Finnish economical press

9. Family consumption patterns and time use
(6 papers, 1 MB)

Bonke, Jens & Martin Browning: Allocation of expenditures within the household: a new Danish survey

Grinfelde, Anda, Viola Korpa & Aija Eglite: The Influence of Income and Consumption on the Life Quality of Pensioners in Latvia

Gwozdz, Wencke: Why does less housework for women not (yet) lead to an equal division of housework between men and women?

Jalas, Mikko & Mika Pantzar: Backcasting energy conservation in everyday life; new and persistent patterns of time use

Niemi, Iiris & Hannu Pääkkönen: Time Use Database in Analysing Consumption Patterns

Varjonen, Johanna & Kristiina Aalto: Combining time and money for family well-being – life cycle perspective

10. Food, market and politics
(10 papers, 1 MB)

Bellner, Hanna & Maria Nyberg: ”The empty nest” – food, meals, health and the life course

Boye, Heidi, Torben Hansen & Thyra Uth Thomsen: Engender mental accounting: How cultural and social spheres affect the justification of hedonic food consumption

Denver, Sigrid, Tove Christensen & Signe Krarup: How vulnerable is organic consumption to information?

Forsman-Hugg, Sari, Juha-Matti Katajajuuri, Johanna Mäkelä, Jaana Paananen, Inkeri Pesonen & Päivi Timonen: Enhancing corporate social responsibility in the food chain with a stakeholder dialogue

Jacobsen, Eivind, Svein Ole Borgen & Arne Dulsrud: Towards a theoretical taxonomy of food labelling

Linden, Anna-Lisa & Maria Nyberg: A dining room at work. An arena for multi-cultural eating

Mikkelsen, Bent Egberg, Gunnar Vittersø, Gun Roos, Lill Vramo & Kerstin Bergström: The public as political consumer - case findings from implementation of organic procurement polices in public food systems in Scandinavia

Mørkbak, Morten Raun & Jonas Nordström: Consumer perception of animal welfare and the effect of information

Nordström, Jonas & Linda Thunström: The Impact of Tax Reforms Designed to Encourage a Healthier Grain Consumption

Roos, Gun: Consumers, nutrition policy and simplified nutritional labelling of foods

11. Housing and consumption
(5 papers, 0.9 MB)

Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten & Claus Bech-Danielsen: Housing and immigrants – consumer aspects of the meaning of the home

Oldrup, Helene: Paradoxical places, ambivalent feelings: between cosmopolitan and metropolitan spaces

Perrels, Adriaan & Elina Berghäll: Are summerhouse owners just wealthier or do they have an outgoing lifestyle? – Implications for sustainable holidays and leisure

Putman, Lenny & Sander van den Burg: Purchasing a house. Is there a place for environmental arguments?

Svane, Örjan: Helping, Informing or Coaxing the Consumer? – Exploring Persuasive Technology as applied to households’ energy use