Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in TV programs and other media products. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of firm behavior...

Environmental and social responsibilities have led many manufacturers to used products recovery. Meanwhile, many manufacturers nowadays sell products via indirect retailer channels and direct Internet channels. This paper models a dual-channel closed-loop supply chain to improve the...

This study examines a phenomenon in one nation's automobile insurance market where insurers adopt diverse pricing strategies in this regulated industry that does not allow for such diversions—a homogeneous, insurance industry in which a government authority sets the official pricing formula as...

Based on a duopolistic set-up where firms produce software products with respective support packs, we analyze firms' pricing and predetermined monitoring decisions, as well as the impacts of these factors on welfare. In the presence of end-user piracy, users are classified as support-dependent...

In this paper we argue that pricing is all about price changes, and that the costs of price changes are often simultaneously subtle and substantial. We discuss a framework to deal with the dynamics of changing prices. This framework incorporates customer interpretations of price changes, an...

We already feel the effects of the economical and financial crisis, and they’re going to amplify, the essential issue, now, being that of trying to diminish these negative effects. From that perspective, a new approach of the pricing strategy, through a better covering, understanding, control...

In developing pricing strategies for the global marketplace, sellers have to consider the differences in how their consumers process information on prices. One potential difference is in attributions: whether the consumer blames the seller for a negative outcome such as a price increase. Prior...

Discusses methods of tailoring prices to buyers who differ in their willingness to pay while maintaining a semblance of fairness and uniformity – filtered pricing. Considers microeconomic theory, geographic discrimination, filtering methods such as couponing, skimming, quality and features,...

Integrates inventory control issues with corporate financial management and commercial lending practices. The first part of the paper considers inventory management techniques used by inventory holding businesses, then explains how inventory segmentation techniques may be used by financial...