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Therefore, we focus on the long-run patterns of the optimal pricing policy and also discuss the performance of the myopic pricing policy. Methodology\/results: We first provide a comprehensive characterization of the myopic pricing policy, including its solution, long-run convergence behavior, and optimality gap. For the optimal pricing policy, we show an intricate connection between its long-run dynamics and types of reference effects. We demonstrate that the presence of any gain-seeking product renders a long-run constant pricing policy suboptimal. Conversely, the constant policy (or optimal steady state) can exist in both loss-neutral and loss-averse scenarios, where we provide a sufficient condition for such existence and give the analytical expression for the optimal steady state. We further show that when pricing perfect substitutes, the true optimal policy under the multiproduct framework is more likely to yield a long-run cyclic pattern than the policy derived from the single-product framework, a phenomenon that aligns well with the periodic discounts in real-world markets. Managerial implications: This discrepancy in the long-run behaviors between multi- and single-product-based policies highlights the importance of employing the multiproduct framework and addressing the cross-product effects, as sticking to the single-product framework while managing multiple substitutes can misrepresent long-run dynamics and result in suboptimality. In the multiproduct domain, our model suggests that retailers are more likely to benefit from appropriate price variations than maintaining a constant pricing policy. <\/jats:p><jats:p> Funding: H. 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