A common feature of low-price guarantees is that they allow consumers to postpone bargain-hunting until after the purchase. This paper addresses a number of questions concerning the adoption pattern of price-matching and price-beating guarantees with post-purchase search and their impacts on...

This paper examines the liability and labeling approaches to regulating product safety. Stronger product liability increases producer care, which then has a negative lulling effect on consumer attention to warning labels. By contrast, more visible warning labels increase such consumer care,...

A common practice among utility companies is to offer discounts to consumers who use a rival's services in an attempt to induce them to switch suppliers. This chapter examines a two-period model of price competition on a Hotelling line that captures this type of price discrimination. In the...