Price-matching guarantees are widely used in consumer and industrial markets. Previous studies argue that they are a … cuts. While a store with price-matching guarantees has no fear of losing customers to rivals' price cuts, it has every … to heavier competition and a growing bargain consciousness among shoppers. The introduction of price-matching guarantees …

offer a service guarantee. But are guarantees credible? Are they really effective? Can they overcome consumers’ prior … empirical examination of the persuasive power of service guarantees. Specifically, the effects of service process evidence …

the intended scope of the guarantee. Proposes that such combined guarantees would be superior to the pure designs, as they … combine the wide scope of full satisfaction guarantees with the low uncertainty of attribute‐specific guarantees. Two … the combined guarantee outperformed all other designs and, therefore, demonstrate that firms can design better guarantees …

Many service firms use delivery time guarantees to compete for customers in the marketplace. In this research we … develop a stylized model to analyze the impact of using time guarantees on competition. Demands are assumed to be sensitive to … both the price and delivery time guarantees, and the objective of each firm is to select the best price and time guarantee …

. The fundamental that causes ‘twin crises’ is government guarantees to domestic banks' foreign creditors. When these … guarantees are in place twin crises inevitably occur, but their timing is a multiple equilibrium phenomenon that depends on …. They happen in countries where there are fundamental problems, such as guarantees to the financial sector. …

Currency crises that coincide with banking crises tend to share four elements. First, governments provide guarantees to … output. This paper proposes an explanation for these regularities. We show that government guarantees lower interest rates …

European Union in 1995. Public guarantees for outstanding debt from exports have since then been restricted to "non …-marketable" risks. Therefore, the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank provides guarantees only for exports to non-OECD member countries (and … non-private institution. The reorientation resulted in a decline in new allocations of guarantees from ATS 54.5 billion …

Export guarantees are among the few tools left for an active economic policy to promote foreign trade. Under … international agreements, which are in place since 1996, guarantees have been restricted to non-marketable risks. As a result, the … total volume of guarantees has been stagnating in recent years. Nevertheless, there is clear evidence for the positive …