期刊
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
卷 28, 期 6, 页码 3330-3363出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/itor.12961
关键词
production; pricing; consumption externalities; hunger marketing; nondurable goods
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [19K04910]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19K04910] Funding Source: KAKEN
This study examines the production and pricing strategy of a monopoly firm in the presence of the snob effect, finding that consumer sensitivity to stockouts, consumer discount factor on past shortages, and firm's discount factor on future profits influence the optimal dynamic paths of price and output level, with total profit monotonically increasing with the degree of consumer sensitivity to stockouts.
This study analyzes the production and pricing strategy of a monopoly firm in the presence of the snob effect, whereby consumers value a product more when its availability is lower. Real-world firms often intentionally cause the snob effect by strategically reducing supply quantities or even causing shortages. This observation suggests the existence of a trade-off between utilizing the snob effect and avoiding opportunity costs. We consider a general multiperiod model in which a monopoly firm determines the dynamic paths of price and sales quantity; although consumers are not forward looking, they evaluate past stockouts with a discount factor. We find that the optimal dynamic paths of the price and output level vary depending on the degree of consumer sensitivity to stockouts, the consumer's discount factor on past shortage, and the firm's discount factor on future profit. Nevertheless, the total profit monotonically increases with the degree of consumer sensitivity to stockouts.
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