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A quick-and-easy method for estimating switching costs

I develop and test a method for a quick-and-easy calculation of consumer switching costs among brands in a given industry. The theory developed and tested here maps observed brands’ prices and market shares onto the switching costs which deter a consumer of a specific brand from switching to any other competing brand. Then, I demonstrate how users’ switching costs can be directly calculated in two different industries: (a) the Israeli cellular phone market, and (b) the Finnish market for bank deposits. This calculation method can be used to calculate switching costs in a wide variety of other industries, such as airlines, health services, computers, software, telecommunications, and more.  2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C81; D12; L11

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