This article examines the time series behavior of two important tourism statistical variables: ITR (International Tourism Receipts) and NITAC (Number of International Tourist Arrivals in China) over the past two decades (1984-2004). (Chin Econ/NIAS-Han)

Firms recognizing consumers often use behavior-based pricing (BBP), i.e., condition prices on purchase history. Prior research studies the framework with independent product offerings and shows that BBP leads to poaching and decreases each firm's profits. In this paper, we investigate the...

Traditionally, competing retailers offer price-matching guarantees (PMGs) whereby they promise their consumers that any lower price offered elsewhere within a specific period will be matched. Recently, a growing number of suppliers have opened their direct sales channel and started to match...