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Loss averse customers and price inflexibility
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Sibly, H, Loss averse customers and price inflexibility, Behavioural Macroeconomics: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics 265, Edward Elgar Publishing, IM McDonald (ed), United Kingdom, pp. 208-225. ISBN 978 1 78100 258 2 (2012) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
A neoclassical model of monopoly is extended to incorporate the influence of customers' disposition toward a firm. Customer's disposition - captured by a variable called 'disenchantment' - and price are the determinants of a firm's demand. Disenchantment is positively related to the difference between the price the firm sets and the customers' 'reference price'. It is demonstrated that when customers are loss averse, the profit maximising price is rigid in the face of demand and cost shocks.
[This chapter is a direct republication of Sibly, H. Loss averse customers and price inflexibility, Journal of Economic Psychology, 23 (4) pp 521-538.]
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | consumer behaviour, business organisations |
Research Division: | Economics |
Research Group: | Applied economics |
Research Field: | Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory) |
Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
Objective Group: | Macroeconomics |
Objective Field: | Macroeconomics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Sibly, H (Dr Hugh Sibly) |
ID Code: | 86614 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Deposited By: | Economics and Finance |
Deposited On: | 2013-10-02 |
Last Modified: | 2018-07-18 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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