Author: Pio Baake
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Languages : en
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Price Guarantees, Consumer Search, and Hassle Costs
Author: Pio Baake
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Languages : en
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Prices, Product Differentiation, and Heterogeneous Search Costs
Author: José Luis Moraga-González
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Pages : 31
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Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Volume II
Author: Luis C. Corchón
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788112784
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
This second volume of the Handbook includes original contribution by experts in the field. It provides up-to-date surveys of the most relevant applications of game theory to industrial organization. The book covers both classical as well as new IO topics such as mergers in markets with homogeneous and differentiated goods, leniency and coordinated effects in cartels and mergers, static and dynamic contests, consumer search and product safety, strategic delegation, platforms and network effects, auctions, environmental and resource economics, intellectual property, healthcare, corruption, experimental industrial organization and empirical models of R&D.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788112784
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
This second volume of the Handbook includes original contribution by experts in the field. It provides up-to-date surveys of the most relevant applications of game theory to industrial organization. The book covers both classical as well as new IO topics such as mergers in markets with homogeneous and differentiated goods, leniency and coordinated effects in cartels and mergers, static and dynamic contests, consumer search and product safety, strategic delegation, platforms and network effects, auctions, environmental and resource economics, intellectual property, healthcare, corruption, experimental industrial organization and empirical models of R&D.
Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability
Author: Colin L. Campbell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319186876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2009 World Marketing Congress held in Oslo, Norway with the theme Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability. The focus of the conference and the enclosed papers is on marketing thought and practices throughout the world. This volume resents papers on various topics including marketing management, marketing strategy and consumer behavior. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319186876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2009 World Marketing Congress held in Oslo, Norway with the theme Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability. The focus of the conference and the enclosed papers is on marketing thought and practices throughout the world. This volume resents papers on various topics including marketing management, marketing strategy and consumer behavior. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.
Three Essays on Low-price Guarantees
Author: Liping Zhang
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Category : University of Ottawa theses
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : University of Ottawa theses
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Minimum Price Guarantees in a Consumer Search Model
Author: Maarten C. W. Janssen
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pages : 0
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Minimum Price Guarantees in a Consumer Search Model
Author: Maarten Janssen
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Pages : 17
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Pages : 17
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Offering Low Price Guarantees to Improve Customer Retention
Author: Bruce McWilliams
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Major retailers in the USA offer Money Back Guarantees (MBGs) under which they return money to dissatisfied customers. Some of these retailers also offer Low price Guarantees (LPGs) under which they promise to refund price differences if buyers find a lower price after purchase. Some researchers have argued that LPGs should be legally challenged because they limit price competition and contribute to higher prices. This paper shows that adding an LPG to an MBG can help improve economic efficiency as both retailer loss and customer hassle costs from excessive returns are reduced. This reduction serves as a counter argument against those who believe that LPGs should be prohibited.
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Major retailers in the USA offer Money Back Guarantees (MBGs) under which they return money to dissatisfied customers. Some of these retailers also offer Low price Guarantees (LPGs) under which they promise to refund price differences if buyers find a lower price after purchase. Some researchers have argued that LPGs should be legally challenged because they limit price competition and contribute to higher prices. This paper shows that adding an LPG to an MBG can help improve economic efficiency as both retailer loss and customer hassle costs from excessive returns are reduced. This reduction serves as a counter argument against those who believe that LPGs should be prohibited.
Journal of Retailing
Author: New York University. Institute of Retail Management
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Category : Retail trade Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Retail trade Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A Search Cost Model of Obfuscation
Author: Glenn Ellison
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Category : Information theory in economics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Abstract: This paper develops search-theoretic models in which it is individually rational for firms to engage in obfuscation. It considers oligopoly competition between firms selling a homogeneous good to a population of rational consumers who incur search costs to learn each firm's price. Search costs are endogenized: obfuscation is equated with unobservable actions that make it more time-consuming to inspect a product and learn its price. We note two mechanisms by which obfuscation can affect consumer beliefs about future search costs: a direct effect that applies when search costs are convex in time spent searching and a signal-jamming effect that applies when an informational link is present. As long as obfuscation is costless for firms, the presence of either of these mechanisms guarantees that obfuscation must occur in equilibrium, unless consumer search costs are already so high that consumers are willing to purchase at the highest equilibrium price in the absence of obfuscation. Changes in consumer search costs are at least partially offset by changes in the equilibrium level of obfuscation, raising doubts about whether reductions in consumer search costs must make markets more competitive. We also examine patterns of obfuscation and show that higher markups are usually associated with more obfuscation
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Category : Information theory in economics
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Abstract: This paper develops search-theoretic models in which it is individually rational for firms to engage in obfuscation. It considers oligopoly competition between firms selling a homogeneous good to a population of rational consumers who incur search costs to learn each firm's price. Search costs are endogenized: obfuscation is equated with unobservable actions that make it more time-consuming to inspect a product and learn its price. We note two mechanisms by which obfuscation can affect consumer beliefs about future search costs: a direct effect that applies when search costs are convex in time spent searching and a signal-jamming effect that applies when an informational link is present. As long as obfuscation is costless for firms, the presence of either of these mechanisms guarantees that obfuscation must occur in equilibrium, unless consumer search costs are already so high that consumers are willing to purchase at the highest equilibrium price in the absence of obfuscation. Changes in consumer search costs are at least partially offset by changes in the equilibrium level of obfuscation, raising doubts about whether reductions in consumer search costs must make markets more competitive. We also examine patterns of obfuscation and show that higher markups are usually associated with more obfuscation