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Unemployment Risk, Precautionary Saving, and Durable Goods Purchase Decisions

Dunn, Wendy E. - 1999

In this paper household level data are used to explore whether unemployment risk is an important factor in the timing … household debt play a direct role, offering a potential explanation for fluctuations in durable goods spending over the business …

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Music Product as a Durable Good and Online Piracy

Poddar, Sougata - 2008

Music is typical experience good and the formats in which music is available; for example, CDs and cassettes or downloaded files are durable in nature. Using these two typical characteristics of the 'music product', in this paper, we develop an analytical framework to study the economic...

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Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Consumer Packaged Goods

Mansley, Ryan - 2022

Temporary price promotions, or sales, are common in many markets. Using retail scanner data, I find that manufacturers, not retailers, control the timing of sales, while retailers exercise some control over the magnitude of the price decrease. I also find that observed sale policy is more...

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Marketing Consumer Durables in Mature Product Categories - Do Innovators Matter?

Kaya, Maria; Albers, Sönke; Proppe, Dennis; Steffens, Paul - 2012

discretionary replacements of working units. Third, we empirically explore additional unit purchases at a household level for the … replacements. We show the strength of this effect varies between products and household types. Overall, our results indicate that … evidence of strong asymmetric effects of household characteristics between forced and discretionary purchases. For example …

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The Compatibility of Durable Goods with Contingent Generic Consumables

Erzurumlu, Sinan - 2012

Many durable products provide value only when used together with contingent services or consumable components, e.g. light fixtures (bulbs), printers (ink), electronics (batteries). Consumers need only have access to the contingent consumable components to continue to derive service from a...

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Mitigating Demand Risk of Durable Goods in Online Retailing

Ghadge, Abhijeet; Bag, Sujoy; Goswami, Mohit; Tiwari, Manoj - 2020

Purpose – An uncertain product demand in online retailing leads to loss of opportunity cost and customer dissatisfaction due to instances of product unavailability. On the other hand, when e-retailers store excessive inventory of durable goods to fulfil uncertain demand, it results in...

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Chapter 7. Diffusion and pricing over the product life cycle

Nair, Harikesh S. - In: Handbook of the economics of marketing : Volume 1, (pp. 359-439). 2019

This chapter presents a selective review of a literature in marketing that analyzes diffusion and pricing over the product life-cycle. I primarily focus on empirical work, and on papers that deal with the dynamics of pricing over time. I discuss how recent empirical work has linked outcomes to...

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Consumer Guilt and Sustainable Choice : Environmental Impact of Durable Goods Innovation

Sudhir, K.; Shankar, Ramesh; Yuan, Jin - 2022

The paper develops a modeling framework to study how sustainability interventions impact consumer adoption of durable goods innovation, ﬁrm proﬁt and environmental outcomes in equilibrium. Our two period model with forward looking consumers and a monopoly ﬁrm introducing an innovation in...

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The lifetime of a durable good : an economic psychological approach

Antonides, Gerrit - 1990

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The impact of consumer's regret on firms' decisions in a durable good market

Liu, Qianshuo - In: Journal of economics 139 (2023) 2, pp. 125-157

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