In the context of vertical contractual relationships, where competing sellers distribute their
products directly as well as through competing intermediation platforms, we analyze the …

With the recent deregulation of container service rates and the establishment of more joint
venture terminals in China, the separation of ownership and operation of container terminals …

If consumers believe that stores offering price-matching guarantees (PMGs) charge low
prices, high-search-cost consumers will purchase from PMG stores. This leads PMG stores' …

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GQ5 POS= 14pt]?> A stream of recent research considers the practice of random price …

It has long been understood in theory that price‐match guarantees can be anticompetitive,
but to date, scant empirical evidence is available outside of some narrow markets. This …

Recent antitrust enforcement in the EU has focused on the use of some peculiar forms of
Most Favoured Nation (MFN) clauses by online platforms, giving rise to a wide discussion …

Many retailers offer price-matching guarantees (PMGs) whereby they promise their
customers that any lower price offered by competition for an identical product will be …

With price matching policies, retailers offer consumers to match prices offered by cheaper
competitors. This article investigates how price matching affects pricing decisions in dynamic …

Abstract We show that Most Favoured Nation clauses on the online booking market are
detrimental to consumers if platforms have most of the bargaining power. They attenuate …

The dominant view in the literature on price-matching policies is that such policies soften
price competition and raise prices. However, this literature examines models in which the …