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The Law of Demand and the Loss of Confidence Effect: An Experimental Study

MAZUREK, Jiří, Cristina PEREZ RICO a Carlos FERNANDEZ GARCIA

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Law of Demand and the Loss of Confidence Effect: An Experimental Study

Autoři

MAZUREK, Jiří (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Cristina PEREZ RICO (724 Španělsko) a Carlos FERNANDEZ GARCIA (724 Španělsko)

Vydání

Heliyon, 2019, 2405-8440

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50201 Economic Theory

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/47813059:19520/19:A0000057

Organizační jednotka

Obchodně podnikatelská fakulta v Karviné

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e02685

Klíčová slova anglicky

demand function; price elasticity of demand; irrationality; loss of confidence and experimental study
Změněno: 21. 4. 2020 11:21, Ing. Petra Skoumalová

Anotace

V originále

The aim of this article is to examine the possibility that a market demand function (curve) might not be monotonically decreasing in its entire domain according to the consumer theory neoclassical as assumed by the law of demand (for normal goods). This may happen due to limited rationality of (some) consumers and the anchor price effect. When a price of a good decreases to some point, the amount demanded might stops increasing due to the loss of confidence effect: consumers’ unwillingness to buy a too cheap product. The existence of this effect was examined via questionnaire on a sample of 377 undergraduate university students from the Czech Republic, Ecuador and Spain. The main result of this experimental study is that the loss of confidence effect appeared at all three locations, which indicates that the law of demand may not be valid in its entire domain. Furthermore, the results of this study imply that a significant percentage of people make decisions of limited rationality even when facing a very simple task. In addition, statistically significant difference in rational behavior with respect to gender was found.
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