Exploding offers and buy-now discounts

A common sales tactic is for a seller to encourage a potential customer to make her purchase decision quickly, before she can investigate rival deals in the market. We consider a market with sequential consumer search in which firms can achieve this either by making an exploding offer (which permit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Armstrong, M, Zhou, J
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2011