. Conspicuous characteristics fulfilled many of the functions that patents, trademarks, and brand names do today. The words that … referred to products with conspicuous characteristics served as brand names in the Middle Ages. Data drawn from an array of …

Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand …

Reservations. The regime change represents a unique opportunity to quantify brand loyalty because it almost doubled the price of … premium-brand cigarettes, while Native brands were still untaxed. We use data from two different sources--the New York State … three-quarters remained brand loyal …

merchandise of similar quality suggests that they value the prestige, or status, associated with brand-name trademarks … with a given label. But counterfeits allow consumers to unbundle the status and quality attributes of the brand …

typically assumed ad-hoc in customer market and brand switching cost models. A central result of the paper is that deep habits …

Investments in brand provide one method for vendors to become known and convince potential customers that vendors will … their commitments can serve a similar function and may undermine investments in brand. This study uses a 13-month panel … whether information use undermines brand. We find that individuals who take up using price comparison sites reduce their …

branded equivalent, while the retailer's margin on the national brand is an upper bound on the retailer's marginal handling … cost for both the brand and private label versions. We find that lower bounds on the 'full' markup ratio range from 3 …