We study a firm's product design, distribution, and pricing problem when it is presented with the opportunity to enter a foreign market. Specifically, we focus on identifying the product quality, product access, and consumer welfare outcomes when the firm decides to pursue new consumers in a...

Purpose - The advanced technology enables retailers to develop customer profile analysis (CPA) to implement personalized pricing. However, considering the efficiency of developing CPA, the benefit to different retailers of implementing more precise personalized pricing remains unclear. Thus,...

Using data from Taiwan's Yahoo! auctions of Nikon cameras, this paper investigates whether there exists any difference in transaction results between commodities which are sold by authorized sellers and those which are parallel imports. We find that the parallel imports and the authorized...