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Money-back guarantee in the presence of strategic customer behavior
International Journal of Production Economics ( IF 9.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-29 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108191
Zongsheng Huang , Lingchen Huang , Yingxue Zhao , Xiaoge Meng

Anticipating future clearance markdowns, customers can choose purchase timing to maximize their expected utility. Taking into account such strategic consumer behavior, this paper conducts an analytical research for the optimal design of the money-back guarantee (MBG). Our work found that the degree of strategic consumer behavior can have crucial effects on the optimization of MBG. Specifically, offering an MBG in both the regular and clearance sale periods is optimal for the seller when the customers are highly strategic; otherwise, providing an MBG is optimal only during the regular selling period. In addition, customers can benefit from MBG. In particular, offering an MBG only during the regular selling period generates the highest surplus for consumers when they are comparatively highly strategic; otherwise, offering an MBG during both the regular and clearance sale periods is preferable. Furthermore, an MBG can achieve Pareto improvement for the seller and consumers only in the regular selling period with moderately strategic customers. Compared to extant literature, the fundamental contributions of this paper are (1) the revelation that the degree of strategic customer behavior is a critical factor when designing an MBG, and (2) the development of an analytical characterization of the optimization of an MBG in response to different degrees of strategic customer behavior. Our work well substantializes the result that an MBG policy can be an effective tool for addressing strategic customer behavior.



中文翻译:

存在战略性客户行为时的退款保证

预计未来的清仓降价,客户可以选择购买时间来最大化他们的预期效用。考虑到这种策略性的消费者行为,本文对退款保证(MBG)的优化设计进行了分析研究。我们的工作发现,战略消费者行为的程度可以对 MBG 的优化产生至关重要的影响。具体而言,当客户具有高度战略性时,在常规和清仓销售期间提供 MBG 对卖家来说是最佳选择;否则,仅在常规销售期间提供 MBG 是最佳选择。此外,客户可以从 MBG 中受益。特别是,仅在常规销售期间提供 MBG 可为消费者带来最高的盈余,而此时他们的战略性相对较高;除此以外,在常规和清仓销售期间提供 MBG 是可取的。此外,MBG只有在具有中等战略客户的常规销售期才能为卖家和消费者实现帕累托改进。与现有文献相比,本文的基本贡献是 (1) 揭示了战略客户行为的程度是设计 MBG 时的关键因素,以及 (2) 开发了 MBG 优化的分析表征对不同程度的战略客户行为做出反应。我们的工作很好地证实了 MBG 政策可以成为解决战略客户行为的有效工具的结果。MBG只有在具有中等战略客户的常规销售期才能为卖家和消费者实现帕累托改进。与现有文献相比,本文的基本贡献是 (1) 揭示了战略客户行为的程度是设计 MBG 时的关键因素,以及 (2) 开发了 MBG 优化的分析表征对不同程度的战略客户行为做出反应。我们的工作很好地证实了 MBG 政策可以成为解决战略客户行为的有效工具的结果。MBG只有在具有中等战略客户的常规销售期才能为卖家和消费者实现帕累托改进。与现有文献相比,本文的基本贡献是 (1) 揭示了战略客户行为的程度是设计 MBG 时的关键因素,以及 (2) 开发了 MBG 优化的分析表征对不同程度的战略客户行为做出反应。我们的工作很好地证实了 MBG 政策可以成为解决战略客户行为的有效工具的结果。(2) 针对不同程度的战略客户行为开发 MBG 优化的分析表征。我们的工作很好地证实了 MBG 政策可以成为解决战略客户行为的有效工具的结果。(2) 针对不同程度的战略客户行为开发 MBG 优化的分析表征。我们的工作很好地证实了 MBG 政策可以成为解决战略客户行为的有效工具的结果。

更新日期:2021-06-09
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