This paper analyzes consumers' privacy choice concerning their private data and firms' ensuing pricing strategy. The General Data Protection Regulation passed by the European Union in May 2018 allows consumers to decide whether to reveal private information in the form of cookies to an online...

The Internet allows sellers to track “window shoppers,” consumers who look but do not buy, and to lure them back later by targeting them with an advertised sale. This new technology thus facilitates intertemporal price discrimination, but simultaneously makes it too easy for a seller to...

“Zero-price markets,” wherein firms set the price of their goods or services at $0, have exploded in quantity and variety. Creative content, software, search functions, social media platforms, mobile applications, travel booking, navigation and mapping systems, and myriad other products are...

Recent progress in information technologies provides sellers with detailed knowledge about consumers' preferences, approaching perfect price discrimination in the limit.We construct a model where consumers with less strategic sophistication than the seller's pricing algorithm face a trade-off...

Banking industry has been the mainstay of Indian economy. Lately its competitiveness has increased manifold. In order to enhance their customer base banks have been introducing innovative services including that of high quality ATM facility. In the present research paper, an attempt has been...

There are many situations in which a customer's proclivity to buy the product of any firm depends not only on the classical attributes oft he product such as its price and quality, but also on who else is buying the same product. We model these situations as games in which firms compete for...

Purpose – This study aims to bridge the gap in the literature in measuring the service quality in E-commerce such as process quality, outcome quality and recovery towards customer's satisfaction. Design/methodology/ approach – A field survey carried out with the help of questionnaire derived...

Testing for and measuring habitual brand loyalty (HBL) is one of the classic questions in quantitative marketing. We propose a nonparametric test for HBL using a ``dynamic potential outcomes'' model that resolves the classic identification challenge of decoupling state dependence and unobserved...

The subject of this study is loyalty programs, The aim of the article is to draw attention to loyalty in the current economy, The purpose of the article is to examine the evolution of loyalty pro- grams offered to consumers and investors, The study will cover the issue of building a loyal base...

In purchase behavior research, the personal dispositions of consumers can play a decisive role. This becomes relevant especially in very narrow target groups when socio-demographic constraints are very similar. In the present study, three types of continuity and change in the Big Five...