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Promotional Allowances: Loss Leading as an Incentive Device

David Martimort
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Abstract

A retailer may boost demand for a manufacturer's product through unobservable promotional efforts. Fixed fees cannot be used to freely allocate profit within the vertical structure. When manufacturers have market power, the equilibrium wholesale contract features a retail price below cost together with a rebate for incremental units bought by the retailer when effort has succeeded in boosting sales. Loss leading emerges as an incentive device in such an incomplete contracting scenario. A ban on below-cost pricing leads to a higher retail price and a lower promotional effort.
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halshs-04684854 , version 1 (03-09-2024)

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David Martimort, Jerome Pouyet. Promotional Allowances: Loss Leading as an Incentive Device. 2024. ⟨halshs-04684854⟩
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