abstract: This thesis presents a model for the buying behavior of consumers in a technology market. In this model, a potential consumer is not perfectly rational, but exhibits bounded rationality following the axioms of prospect theory: reference dependence, diminishing returns and loss sensitivity. To evaluate the products on different criteria, the analytic hierarchy process is used, which allows for relative comparisons. The analytic hierarchy process proposes that when making a choice between several alternatives, one should measure the products by comparing them relative to each other. This allows the user to put numbers to subjective criteria. Additionally, evidence suggests that a consumer will often consider not only their own evaluation of a product, but also the choices of other consumers. Thus, the model in this paper applies prospect theory to products with multiple attributes using word of mouth as a criteria in the evaluation. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Applied Mathematics 2014
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:27512 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Contributors | Elkholy, Alexander (Author), Armbruster, Dieter (Advisor), Kempf, Karl (Committee member), Li, Hongmin (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 44 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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