Dynamic purchase decisions under regret: Price and availability

Decision Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-30

  Diecidue, Enrico ^a   Rudi, Nils ^a   Tang, Wenjie ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Dynamic purchase; Regret; Type inconsistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860823162     PISSN: 15458490     EISSN: 15458504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/deca.1110.0227     Document Type: Article

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