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Use prices as sales agents
Author(s) -
Wang Ren,
Hou Jie,
Song Hui
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
managerial and decision economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.288
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-1468
pISSN - 0143-6570
DOI - 10.1002/mde.3180
Subject(s) - profitability index , homogeneous , microeconomics , profit (economics) , monopoly , economics , preference , pricing strategies , business , econometrics , finance , mathematics , combinatorics
We use a monopoly model with consumer heterogeneity to study the profitability of group buying, in which the discounted price is offered to consumers if more than a certain number of them agree to make purchases. We find that group buying generally outperforms intertemporal pricing but is outperformed by a referral reward program. The optimal minimum requirement depends on parameters. If a consumer and her invitee have homogeneous preference and there is no discount of future utility, a pricing strategy characterized by the low (medium) minimum requirement is always dominated by high minimum requirement, whose profit coincides with one‐person group buying.

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