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Price elasticity, rather than being a specific characteristic of a brand, varied consistently with the competitive context, such as proximity to competitors’ prices, brand share, how overt the price change was, and consumer characteristics such as being younger, or a light buyer of the brand. Measurement procedures affected the size of the effects, but the relative patterns persisted.
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