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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Reference Dependence"”.
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Equilibrium Implications of Social Utility and Reference Dependence
… profitability are affected by the presence of reference prices and consumer loss aversion.</p><p>The first essay looks at the fashion industry, where product demand is largely driven by consumers' desire to signal their social status through product usage, and theoretically explains why fashion …
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Pricing with quality perception : theory and experiment
… these insights, together with other motives-reference dependence, loss aversion, patience, and optimism. For the retailer, we characterize the structure of the market segmentation and analyze its optimal markdown strategy when consumers are sensitive to quality. We present conditions in which …
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Prospect Theory in the Housing Market
… point. The second study exploits households’ reference dependence behaviour in the second-hand housing market. It aims to locate a precise reference point which is a key factor to reliable loss aversion investigations. The main prediction is that reference points are formed under the influence …
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Essays in Economic Theory
… attenuates. We show that different static preferences under uncertainty (subjective expected utility, maxmin, robust control) arise in the long run, depending on how quickly the agent becomes unsatisfied with unexplained evidence and whether they are misspecified. The misspecification …
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Three essays in experimental and behavioral economics of technology adoption in India
… to pay driven by experience with the good to any reference price effects coming from the initial price paid. Utilizing estimates on recipients use of the technology, we calculate the benefits of the storage technology to different farmers and compare that against their willingness to pay. We then …