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A potentially powerful way to assist consumers in making dynamic shopping decisions is to disclose price information to them before they shop, for example by posting prices on the Internet. This paper addresses the differential impact of disclosing either only current, or both current and future prices, on consumer shopping decisions in multi-period tasks involving multiple product purchases. In the context of an Internet-based experiment, we find that consumer expenditure deviates more strongly from that of a normative model when both current and future prices are disclosed than if only current prices are disclosed. We investigate the behavioral effects underlying this finding by estimating a model that allows for variations in consumer discounting, strength of store price format preferences, as well as choice consistency between different price disclosure conditions.
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Dellaert, B.G.C., Golounov, V.Y. & Prabhu, J. The Impact of Price Disclosure on Dynamic Shopping Decisions. Market Lett 16, 37–52 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-005-0719-8
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