The implementation of online buying and selling transactions through the shopee marketplace is included in category that currently vogue, because indeed convenience offered also various discounts provided, including tempting discount promos including: price discounts, cashback, postage so on. Various methods have been used by some Shopee account users to get these discounts; one way more than p...

Purpose – Studies on optimal discount levels have sometimes yielded contradictory results, leaving practitioners with unclear direction. This paper proposes clarifying the optimum discount levels. Design/methodology/approach – This study asked 453 consumers to choose their own optimal discount levels (from 0-80 percent) for eight product categories across two distribution channels (physical sto...

We investigate whether and how current sales of cigarettes vary with past and future sales made under two different types of in-store price discounts: those that require a smoker to buy a carton (10 packs) and those that require a smoker to only buy a single pack. We hypothesize that different types of consumers respond to these promotions. We posit that smokers who utilize discounts tied to a ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the pricing behavior and the discount of U.S. withinfamily closed-end funds merger, i.e., mergers between acquiring and target funds belonging to same fund families. There is no specific research on this issue since limited number of previous studies examines the determinants of open-end fund mergers and their subsequent wealth impact on shareholders of t...

Although two classes of shares on the same Chinese companies differ only in that the A-share class trade in Yuan and the B-share class in dollars, the B-shares have traded at a significant and persistent discounts to the A-shares since inception of the B-share market in the early 1990s. The persistence of the discount has been a puzzle. We find that liquidity differences between the less liquid...

Professor Einer Elhauge’s provocative article, Tying, Bundled Discounts, and the Death of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 397 (2009), contests two propositions on which efficiency-minded antitrust scholars have largely agreed: (1) that there should be no tying liability absent substantial tied market foreclosure (a position contrary to the legal status quo), and (2) that co...

In many real-life situations, there are “package deals”, when customers who buy two or more different items get a special discount. For example, when planning a trip, a deal including airfare and hotel costs less than the airfare and hotel on their own; there are often also special deals when we combine airfare with car rental, and deals that cover all three items plus tickets to local tourist ...