Marketing students who observe positive relationships between price and perceived quality often refer to this finding as reflecting a "reverse" demand function, which is depicted by an upward sloping demand curve. A closer examination of the relation of perceived quality to price reveals that the concept of "reverse" demand functions is quite questionable.
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