Why are so many goods priced to end in nine? And why this practice hurts the producers

DOI10.1016/S0165-1765(97)00009-8zbMATH Open0905.90018WikidataQ56192362 ScholiaQ56192362MaRDI QIDQ1391644FDOQ1391644

Kaushik Basu

Publication date: 22 July 1998

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

pricingmarketingconsumer rationalityprice perception

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Marketing, advertising (90B60) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42) Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24)

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