Time Inconsistency and Product Design: A Strategic Analysis of Feature Creep

2019/08/28 by Sanjay Jain
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing #Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting #Merger and Competition Analysis

paper · doi:10.1287/mksc.2019.1170

openalex publication_date 2019/08/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

This paper examines how time-inconsistent consumers affect firms’ product design and pricing decisions.

Citations

• Exploiting Naïvete about Self-Control in the Credit Market
• Self-Control and Incentives: An Analysis of Multiperiod Quota Plans

Related

• Feature Fatigue: When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing
• Technical Note—Signaling Product Quality Through a Trial Period
• A temporal construal theory explanation of the price-quality relationship in online dynamic pricing
• Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Strategic Self-Control in Digital Content Consumption
• The Interactions of Customer Reviews and Price and Their Dual Roles in Conveying Quality Information