Several prominent Internet retailers provide real-time inventory-level information to online shoppers. Whereas this practice hints at retailers' belief that disclosed inventory information may induce demand, prior research in operations management and marketing have yielded conflicting views on...

Firms are increasingly using technology to enable targeted, or "personalized" pricing strategies. In settings where prices are transparent to all consumers, however, there is the potential that inter-personal price differences will be perceived as inherently unfair. In response, firms may...