Road and bridge administration, purchasing organization and methods, in Dallas County; report and summary. Report: Griffenhagen & Associates. Summary: Greater Dallas Planning Council Advisory Committee.

At head of title. W. Dallas County, Texas.

Directory of purchasing offices, Illinois state government, universities and colleges /

Cover title.

Joint purchasing manual : how governmental units can share in centralized procurement.

Cover title.

Joint purchasing manual : how governmental units can share in centralized procurement.

At head of title: State of Illinois.

Purchasing, a guide book for local governments /

Cover title.

Purchasing agent; magazine of centralized buying.

Mode of access: Internet.

Handbook for purchasing a small transit vehicle /

"DOT-T-89-07"--P. [4] of cover.

Food purchasing pointers for school food service /

Issued Aug. 1977.

Outline of suggested specifications for purchasing processed fruits and vegetables /

"May 1945."

Purchasing by the States.

Mode of access: Internet.

State purchasing preference practices. Results of a survey of in-state purchasing practices of fifty States, December 1960.

Mode of access: Internet.

Purchasing power of

Mode of access: Internet.

Consumption of luxury goods in Brazil: purchasing motives and values of Brazilian consumers and implications for marketing

Aiming at success in the currently challenging Brazilian market, luxury firms must consider a number of factors. Not only the adaptation to certain economic and political conditions but also the understanding of Brazilian luxury consumers’ characteristics as well as their value perceptions towards luxury are crucial in order to create an effective marketing strategy. This study investigated the value perceptions and purchasing motives of 428 Brazilian consumers. Brazilians purchase luxury goods in order to conspicuously put them on show to certain social reference group or to the general public. Thus, they display their wealth, income and social status. Social groups therefore play a distinct role in the purchasing decision process. Moreover, Brazilians are found to be hedonic consumers, seeking pleasurable moments and the reduction of stress when consuming luxury products. In addition to that, they use luxurious products to express their own personality. Brazilians hence place a much higher importance on self-expressive, emotional product benefits rather than on rational, functional product benefits. Marketers of luxury goods are advised to make use of this knowledge in order to adequately address consumers’ needs, wants and beliefs. The study focuses on consumers living in Rio de Janeiro and does not take into account different value perceptions on different luxury product categories. Therefore, suggestions for further research include replicating the study in different Brazilian regions and probing for differences among product categories.

Purchasing Power Parities for Industry Comparisons Using Weighted Elteto-Koves-Szulc (EKS) Methods

This study has three main objectives. First, it develops a generalization of the commonly used EKS method to multilateral price comparisons. It is shown that the EKS system can be generalized so that weights can be attached to each of the link comparisons used in the EKS computations. These weights can account for differing levels of reliability of the underlying binary comparisons. Second, various reliability measures and corresponding weighting schemes are presented and their merits discussed. Finally, these new methods are applied to an international data set of manufacturing prices from the ICOP project. Although theoretically superior, it appears that the empirical impact of the weighted EKS method is generally small compared to the unweighted EKS. It is also found that this impact is larger when it is applied at lower levels of aggregation. Finally, the importance of using sector specific PPPs in assessing relative levels of manufacturing productivity is indicated.