Problem Description: A price match guarantee (PMG) is a retail offer to match a rival's retail price on the same product. We ask whether or not a brick-and-mortar retailer should offer a PMG, knowing that a consumer can buy the same product either from her or a competing, manufacturer-owned...

Problem definition: This paper studies an entrepreneur's pricing strategy in a reward-based crowdfund-ing campaign under asymmetric product quality information. We propose two signaling mechanisms and investigate the relative performance of these mechanisms under different market...