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typically assumed ad-hoc in customer market and brand switching cost models. A central result of the paper is that deep habits …
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brand premia. A unique feature of the Swedish market allows me to rule out patients' inattention due to information costs as … mimics a reduction of switching costs and increases prices. While the effect of switching costs on prices in theory is … everyone acts as a medical expert and experiences fewer brand premia, prices decrease. …
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brand premia. A unique feature of the Swedish market allows me to rule out patients' inattention due to information costs as … mimics a reduction of switching costs and increases prices. While the effect of switching costs on prices in theory is … everyone acts as a medical expert and experiences fewer brand premia, prices decrease …
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According to standard economic wisdom, fixed costs should not matter for pricing decisions. However, outside economics, it is widely accepted that firms need to increase their prices after a fixed cost rise. In this note, we show that a liquidity-constrained firm that maximizes lifetime profits...
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test our theory using a panel of household-level store-choice data. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we find that …
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This paper studies consumers' choice between two different water tariffs. We document a large inaction in a novel setting where customers face a binary decision and receive simple, detailed and personalized information about the financial savings they would obtain if they were to switch water...
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Consumers choosing flat-rate contracts tend to have insufficient usage to warrant the cost, particularly for new products. We propose and estimate a Bayesian learning model of tariff and usage choice that explains this "flat-rate bias'' without relying on behavioral misjudgments or...
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