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Pricing behavior of firms when consumers have an Imperfect Recall

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  • Hasan, Syed Akif
  • Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz
  • Osman, Ms. Amber
  • Mehar, Ayub

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Operating in markets which include the characteristics of both the perfect and imperfect competitions has never been so easy for a firm, while setting an acceptable price. Various firms show various pricing behavior to generate and maximize revenues. This paper is an attempt to encompass pricing behaviors of firms when consumers have imperfect recall for the past prices of the products, while giving a thought to ponder that which of the behaviors has an optimal rationale when a firm sets market price for a commodity. The findings concludes that firms set prices as similar as monopolist when the consumers of their products have imperfect recall for price they offered already in yore.

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  • Hasan, Syed Akif & Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz & Osman, Ms. Amber & Mehar, Ayub, 2012. "Pricing behavior of firms when consumers have an Imperfect Recall," MPRA Paper 35682, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Imperfect recall; pricing behavior; monopolist; hotelling tradeoff;
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    • M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General
    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory

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