Behavioral Consumers in Industrial Organization: An Overview

B-Tier
Journal: Review of Industrial Organization
Year: 2015
Volume: 47
Issue: 3
Pages: 247-258

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper overviews three primary branches of the industrial organization literature with behavioral consumers. The literature is organized according to whether consumers: (1) have non-standard preferences; (2) are overconfident or otherwise biased such that they systematically misweight different dimensions of price and other product attributes; or (3) fail to choose the best price due to suboptimal search, confusion comparing prices, or excessive inertia. The importance of consumer heterogeneity and equilibrium effects are also highlighted along with recent empirical work. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:kap:revind:v:47:y:2015:i:3:p:247-258
Journal Field
Industrial Organization
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-25