Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Parakhonyak, Alexei - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 1, pp. 1-11
This paper examines the effect of price matching guarantees (PMGs) on market outcomes in a sequential search model. PMGs are simultaneously chosen with prices and some consumers (shoppers) know the firms’ decisions before buying, while others (non-shoppers) enter a shop before observing the...