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Jeffrey D. Shulman
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 20
Citations - 1005
Jeffrey D. Shulman is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Competitive advantage & Net profit. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 19 publications receiving 781 citations.
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Optimal Restocking Fees and Information Provision in an Integrated Demand-Supply Model of Product Returns
TL;DR: An analytical model is developed that describes how consumer purchase and return decisions are affected by a seller's pricing and restocking fee policy and identifies conditions under which it is (or is not) optimal to provide product fit information to consumers.
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Managing Consumer Returns in a Competitive Environment
TL;DR: This paper investigates the pricing and restocking fee decisions of two competing firms selling horizontally differentiated products in a duopoly facing consumers who have heterogeneous tastes for the products and who must experience a product before knowing how well it matches with their preferences.
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Optimal Reverse Channel Structure for Consumer Product Returns
TL;DR: Interestingly, it is found that the return penalty may be more severe when returns are salvaged by a channel member who derives greater value from a returned unit.
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Add-on Pricing by Asymmetric Firms
Jeffrey D. Shulman,Xianjun Geng +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that consumers who know the add-on fees can be penalized---and increasingly so---by the existence of boundedly rational consumers, and the consideration of quality asymmetries on base goods and add-ons, plus the inclusion of boundiably rational consumers leads to several novel findings regarding firm profits.
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Used goods, not used bads: Profitable secondary market sales for a durable goods channel
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a durable goods market with a retailer-profitable secondary market and show conditions under which the manufacturer would optimally choose to sell no new goods in the second period, ceding the market entirely to the used-good retailer.