This paper considers the impact of transparency on the demand function and investigates
the effect of transparency and corporate social responsibility on the decisions of the …

We study sales techniques which discourage consumer search by making it harder or more
expensive to return to buy after a search for alternatives. It is unilaterally profitable for a …

We study the effects of a price transparency regulation in Israeli supermarkets. Using price
data collected before and after the regulation and a difference-in-difference research design …

This article shows that a multiproduct firm has incentives to obfuscate its products by using
search costs to induce consumers to search through its products in a particular order. The …

This chapter proposes an analysis of the role of advertising in the transmission of
information in markets. It also describes how the economic analysis of informative …

We investigate the role of sellers' commitment power in discouraging consumer search.
Theoretically, lack of commitment power transforms sellers' search‐deterring claims into …

I study a seller's pricing problem where consumers perform costly product research about
value before purchase. They buy the product when sufficiently optimistic about value and …

This article examines a monopoly firm's incentive to disclose information through advertising
when consumers can choose between buying immediately and searching for additional …

This research considers advertising and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a supply
chain. The supply chain composed of a retailer and a manufacturer is considered. It is …

I study optimal information provision by a search goods seller. While the seller controls a
consumer's pre-search information, he cannot control post-search information because the …