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Risk and loss aversion, price uncertainty and the implications for consumer search

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Bruzikas, Tadas - 2016

Do the choices of consumers who search for a product's best price exhibit risk neutral, risk averse or loss averse risk attitudes? We study how in a problem of sequential search with costless recall the relation between a consumer's willingness to pay for continued search and the level of price...

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A joint framework for category purchase and consumption behavior

Oest, Rutger van; Paap, Richard; Franses, Philip Hans - 2002

We propose a consistent utility-based framework to jointly explain a household's decisions on purchase incidence, brand choice and purchase quantity. The approach differs from other approaches, currently available in the literature, as it is able to take into account consumption dynamics. In the...

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A note on moral licensing and foot-in-the-door effect

Ulph, Alistair; Panzone, Luca; Hilton, Denis J. - 2019

Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their past actions. Such inconsistencies appear to violate economists' assumption of rational consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a...

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Asymmetric price adjustment over the business cycle

Levy, Daniel C.; Chen, Haipeng; Ray, Sourav; Charette, … - 2025

Studies of micro-level price datasets find more frequent small price increases than decreases, which can be explained by consumer inattention because time-constrained shoppers might ignore small price changes. Recent empirical studies of the link between shopping behavior and price attention...

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The Value of Communication for Mental Health

Annan, Francis; Archibong, Belinda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Mental health disorders account for a significant share of the overall global disease burden. The economic losses from such disorders are staggeringly large, particularly in low-income countries, where people are faced with several unexpected shocks. We test whether improved communication can...

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Market positioning using cross-reward effects in a coalition loyalty program

Stourm, Valeria; Bradlow, Eric; Fader, Peter - 2017

While single-brand reward programs encourage customers to remain loyal to that one brand, coalition programs encourage customers to be “promiscuous” by offering points redeemable across partner stores. Despite the benefits of this “open relationship” with customers, store managers face...

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Churn and loyalty behavior of Turkish digital natives

Guven, Faruk - 2018

natives - also poses a dilemma for telecom operators: a high rate of attrition or the churn phenomenon. This paper reports on … an empirical examination of the churn and loyalty characteristics of digital natives in the Turkish context. We employ a … large sample of youth and analyse their churn and loyalty likelihoods. Overall, we find convincing evidence that, by having …

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Driving Mobile App User Engagement through Gamification

Paschmann, Jens Wilhelm; Völckner, Franziska; Bruno, Hernan - 2022

Many mobile app providers offer their apps for free and base their business models on user engagement. However, declining app usage over time threatens user engagement and the ability of apps to create business value. To keep users engaged, app providers use gamification, i.e., they link their...

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Mobile User Experience : der Einfluss von kognitivem Entertainment auf die Nutzung mobiler Anwendungen

Zeiler, Vanessa - 2016

Die wachsende Verbreitung und Nutzung des Smartphones erhöht die Relevanz von mobilen Inhalten für Konsumenten und Unternehmen. Innerhalb der Markenkommunikation bietet das mobile Medium die Möglichkeit, den Kunden direkt, personalisiert, überall und zu jederzeit mit der jeweiligen Botschaft...

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How is the mobile internet different? : ranking effects and local activities

Ghose, Anindya; Goldfarb, Avi; Han, Sang Pil - 2011 - Rev.

We explore how internet browsing behavior varies between mobile phones and personal computers. Smaller screen sizes on mobile phones increase the cost to the user of browsing for information. In addition, a wider range of offline locations for mobile internet usage suggests that local activities...

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