A Model of Consumer Inertia With Applications to Dynamic Pricing
- 1 January 2008
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper introduces a model to capture the behavioral phenomenon of inertia in inter-temporal consumer purchase decisions. We define inertia as the inherent tKeywords
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