Paying Not to Go: DellaVigna and Malmendier’s 2006 Flat-Rate Bias, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Must Price the Fee Against the Use, Not the Promise of It

Bar chart comparing the seventeen-dollar implied cost per visit under a flat monthly gym contract against the ten-dollar pay-per-visit price.

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