Introduction: cross-cultural issues in buyer behavior / Charles R. Taylor, Doo-Hee Lee -- Does DTC prescription drug advertising provide information or create market power: evidence from the U.S. and New Zealand / Charles R. Taylor, Michael L. Capella, John C. Kozup -- Skepticism toward pharmaceutical advertising in the U.S. and Germany / Sandra Diehl, Barbara Mueller and Ralf Terlutter -- The effect of mixed emotions in advertising: the moderating role of discomfort with ambiguity / Wim Janssens, Patrick De Pelsmacker, and Marcel Weverbergh -- Emotional responses: a new paradigm in communication research / Flemming Hansen, Sverre Riis Christensen, Steen Lundsteen, and Larry Percy -- "Trading up": a consumption value approach / Eunju Ko, Heewon Sung -- The we-me culture: marketing to Korean consumers / Dae-Ryun Chang -- Do the little emperors rule? comparing informativeness and appeal types in Chinese vs. American and French magazine advertising / Lu Zheng, Joseph E. Phelps, Yorgo Pasadeos, and Shuhua Zhou -- The drivers of customer satisfaction with industrial goods an international study / Fabian Festge and Manfred Schwaiger -- The exposure effect of unclicked banner advertisements: a Korean perspective / Hee-Sook Yoon and Doo Hee Lee -- Website evaluation factors and virtual community loyalty in Korea / Kyung Hoon Kim and Yong Man Jung -- Global youth and mobile games: applying the extended technology acceptance model in the U.S.A., Japan, Spain, and the Czech Republic / Shintaro Okazaki, Radoslav Skapa, and Ildefonso Grande -- An empirical classification of web site structure: a cross-national comparison / Koo Won Suh, Charles R. Taylor and Doo Hee Lee.