A paradox of little pre-purchase search for durables: the trade-off between prices, product lifecycle, and savings on purchases
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- Sergey Malakhov, 2014.
"Satisficing Decision Procedure and Optimal Consumption-Leisure Choice,"
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durables; time horizon; product lifecycle; saving on purchase; pre-purchase search;JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-03-28 (All new papers)
- NEP-COM-2012-03-28 (Industrial Competition)
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