Pricing scheme choice: how process affects outcome

0342784 - NHU-C 2011 RIV CZ eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Shestakova, Natalia
Pricing scheme choice: how process affects outcome.
CERGE-EI Working Paper Series. Roč. 20, č. 2 (2010), s. 99-129. ISSN 1211-3298
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LC542
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:MSM0021620846
Klíčová slova: choice process * heuristics * price discrimination
Kód oboru RIV: AH - Ekonomie
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp411.pdf

Standard price discrimination theories are based on the assumption that consumers use their future demand estimates to evaluate net utility of each pricing scheme and choose the scheme with the highest value. However, some evidence suggests that consumers might not always behave this way. The experiment presented in this paper shows that indeed a substantial proportion of subjects choose not to evaluate the net utility of the offered pricing schemes. Instead, they select from pricing schemes based on a comparison of the schemes' parameters. Interestingly, this selection approach leads to the correct pricing-scheme choice when subjects are not well aware of their demand, and to the incorrect choice when they are. The results call for alternative theories of price discrimination and corresponding policy implications.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0185417