オダ ヒデノリ   ODA HIDENORI
  小田 秀典
   所属   京都産業大学  経済学部 経済学科
   職種   教授
発行・発表の年月 2011
形態種別 研究論文
査読 査読あり
標題 Bounded Rationality on Consumer Purchase Decisions and Product Diffusion Under Network Externalities: A Study Using Agent-Based Simulation and Experiments with Human Subjects.
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 JACIII
巻・号・頁 15(2),212-219頁
著者・共著者 Nariaki Nishino,Sobei H. Oda,Kanji Ueda
概要 This study addresses mechanisms of purchase decision-making under network externalities. In particular, we examine how bounded rationality affects product diffusion in markets where network externalities are present. In response to rapid development of information communication technology, markets with network externalities have been expanding recently. If network externalities are present, then a consumer's utility depends on the number of same product users. In other words, the product value is determined through consumers' interaction in society. Therefore, the elucidation of the mechanism is required. For this purpose, this study adopts an integral approach with agent-based simulations and experiments with human subjects. We use a simple decision-making model constructed by Ueda et al. [1] to conduct experiments with human subjects based on the method of experimental economics. Additionally, we construct agents who make the bounded rational actions observed in the experiments andexamine how product diffusion emerges through interaction of such bounded rational agents. Results show that bounded rationality of subsequent decision-makers affects the purchase behavior of preceding consumers. Accordingly,the output of product diffusion is varied.
DOI 10.20965/jaciii.2011.p0212
ISSN 1343-0130/1883-8014
DBLP ID journals/jaciii/NishinoOU11