Grundlagen zu Preis-Promotions -- Erkenntnisse zu Referenzeffekten von Preis-Promotions -- Hypothesen zu Referenzeffekten von Multi-Item-Promotions -- Vorgehensweise der empirischen Studie -- Modellierung der Referenzeffekte von Multi-Item-Promotions -- Befunde zu Referenzeffekten von...

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) is a participative pricing mechanism which is characterizedby the fact that consumers have maximum control over the price they pay. We discuss thebusiness relevance of PWYW and extend the findings of Kim et al. (2009) using latentclass regression. Two different classes...

Fierce competition and rapid technological progress have considerablyreduced the life cycle length for mobile phones in the last decade. Once a newmobile phone is launched, providers on the market under consideration practice amarkdown strategy. Profits of the providers are generated mainly via...

In this paper we first show that the gains achievable by integrating pricing and inventory controlare usually small for classical demand functions. We then introduce reference price models anddemonstrate that for this class of demand functions the benefits of integration with inventory...

In this paper we estimate and empirically test different behavioral theories of consumer reference price formation. Two major theories are proposed to model the reference price reaction: assimilation contrast theory and prospect theory. We assume that different consumer segments will use...