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An Empirical Study on Sunk-Cost Fallacy under the Two-Part Tarriff (이부요금제하에서의 매몰비용오류에 관한 실증연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Woo;Ko, Chang-Youl;Choi, Sun-Me;Park, Joon-Ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.36 no.10B
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    • pp.1192-1199
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this paper is to test empirically whether the sunk cost fallacy occurres or not under the two-part tarriff and to give the desirable rate-making for minimizing sunk cost fallacy. According to the results of analysis highly paid monthly fee makes more traffics over the level of optimal consumption because of sunk cost fallacy. Therefore monthly fee reduction will cause the optimal consumption that is near the solution of their own utility function.