Best-price Guarantees as a Quality Signal
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Keywords
Most favored customer; MFCC; best-price guarantees; signaling; game theory; industrial organization;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
- L00 - Industrial Organization - - General - - - General
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