Limits on consumer attention give firms incentives to manipulate prospective buyers'
allocation of attention. This paper models such attention manipulation and shows that it …

Studies examining pricing outcomes in the food retail industry are complicated both by the
multiproduct nature of transactions and by the presence of highly concentrated food …

In this paper, I study how and why consumers react differently to package downsizing and
package price increases that result in the same degree of unit price increases. Utilizing …

Genre theory allows us to examine texts that are written for a specific purpose. A non-
fictional genre is similar to other genres such as those for films and novels, and genre …

In many markets, firms make their products complex through add-on features, thus making
them difficult to evaluate and compare. Does this product obfuscation lure buyers into buying …

Despite extensive research on retailers' price responses to demand shocks, much less is
known about their non‐price responses. Using heterogeneity in timing, location, and …

We modify the standard model of price competition with horizontally differentiated products,
imperfect information, and search frictions by allowing consumers to flexibly acquire …

The economic, social and geopolitical context we are going through is characterized by an
atypical dynamic, as complex as it is challenging. Companies are facing significant changes …

Since the 1990s, several studies have pointed out that Japanese retailers exert buyer power
over upstream firms in milk transactions (the buyer power hypothesis), despite the high level …

In 1890, responding to a wave of popular unrest, the United States adopted the Sherman
Antitrust Act. The economics profession had no direct input into the legislative process. 2 …