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| Kissan Joseph and Oksana Loginova |
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| ''Clipping Coupons: Redemption of Offers with Forward-Looking Consumers'' |
| ( 2019, Vol. 39 No.3 ) |
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| Consumer redemption behavior pertaining to coupons, gift certificates, product sampling, rebates, and the like, has been the focus of much scholarly inquiry and the extant literature has documented two noteworthy empirical regularities - a bump in redemptions close to offer expiry and greater redemption with shorter redemption windows. In the extant work, these phenomena have been explained by invoking myopic consumers. Against this backdrop, we ask a simple question: can these phenomena survive if we assume rational, forward-looking consumers? Accordingly, we develop a model consisting exclusively of forward-looking consumers and incorporate two constructs highlighted in the literature - forgetting and stochastic redemption costs. We derive consumers' period-by-period redemption rule and subsequently illustrate the emergence of the two aforementioned empirical regularities. |
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| Keywords: consumer redemption behavior, forward-looking consumers, forgetting, stochastic costs |
JEL: D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
M3 - Marketing and Advertising: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Apr 12 2019 | | Manuscript Accepted : Jul 07 2019 |
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