Strategic Offerings of Return Freight Insurance by Insurers in Monopolistic and Duopolistic Markets
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
References listed on IDEAS
- Zhang, Chong & Yu, Man & Chen, Jian, 2022. "Signaling quality with return insurance: Theory and empirical evidence," Other publications TiSEM 184da313-a89e-4a81-9f23-c, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
- Berg, Erlend & Blake, Michael & Morsink, Karlijn, 2022.
"Risk sharing and the demand for insurance: Theory and experimental evidence from Ethiopia,"
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 236-256.
- Erlend Berg & Michael Blake & Karlijn Morsink, 2017. "Risk Sharing and the Demand for Insurance: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," CSAE Working Paper Series 2017-01-2, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
- Erlend Berg & Michael Blake & Karlijn Morsink, 2021. "Risk Sharing and the Demand for Insurance: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 21/742, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.
- Erlend Berg & Michael Blake & Karlijn Morsink, 2017. "Risk Sharing and the Demand for Insurance: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," CSAE Working Paper Series 2017-01, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
- Xuanming Su, 2009. "Consumer Returns Policies and Supply Chain Performance," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 595-612, March.
- Li, Yiming & Li, Gang & Tayi, Giri Kumar & Cheng, T.C.E., 2021. "Return shipping insurance: Free versus for-a-fee?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 235(C).
- Bruce McWilliams, 2012. "Money-Back Guarantees: Helping the Low-Quality Retailer," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 58(8), pages 1521-1524, August.
- Xiaohuan Wang & Jingchao Xie & Zhi-Ping Fan, 2021. "B2C cross-border E-commerce logistics mode selection considering product returns," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(13), pages 3841-3860, July.
- Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis, 2018. "Fintech and regtech: Impact on regulators and banks," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 7-25.
- Pnina Feldman & Yiangos Papanastasiou & Ella Segev, 2019. "Social Learning and the Design of New Experience Goods," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 65(5), pages 1502-1519, April.
- Chen, Zhongwei & Fan, Zhi-Ping & Zhu, Stuart X., 2023. "Extracting values from consumer returns: The role of return-freight insurance for competing e-sellers," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 306(1), pages 141-155.
- Jie Liu & Shujun Ye & Yujin Zhang & Lulu Zhang, 2023. "Research on InsurTech and the Technology Innovation Level of Insurance Enterprises," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-19, May.
- Xiong, Hui & Liu, Jie, 2023. "Return insurance in a competitive market: Benefiting the high-quality or low-quality retailer?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 255(C).
- Chong Zhang & Man Yu & Jian Chen, 2022. "Signaling Quality with Return Insurance: Theory and Empirical Evidence," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(8), pages 5847-5867, August.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Qiyuan Li & Yanli Fang & Yan Chen, 2025. "Return Strategies of Competing E-Sellers: Return Freight Insurance vs. Return Pickup Services," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-36, January.
- Yiming Li & Gang Li & Xiajun Amy Pan, 2023. "Optimal return shipping insurance policy with consumers' anticipated regret," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 32(10), pages 3209-3226, October.
- Duong, Quang Huy & Zhou, Li & Meng, Meng & Nguyen, Truong Van & Ieromonachou, Petros & Nguyen, Duy Tiep, 2022. "Understanding product returns: A systematic literature review using machine learning and bibliometric analysis," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 243(C).
- Zhang, Xuelan & Lin, Jun & Li, Yifu, 2025. "Dual pricing with purchase hassle," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 280(C).
- Xiong, Hui & Liu, Jie, 2023. "Return insurance in a competitive market: Benefiting the high-quality or low-quality retailer?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 255(C).
- Rezaei Kalantary, Mina & Hejazi, Seyed Reza & Khosroshahi, Hossein, 2023. "Pricing for different return policies in an online marketplace considering appeasement during a post-return out-of-stock," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 266(C).
- Zhao, Lianxia & Guo, Wen & Fang, Shu-Cherng & An, Qi, 2024. "Enhancing supply chain coordination through transparency initiatives to mitigate product returns," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
- Bian, Yueqing & Xiao, Tiaojun, 2025. "Returns management in a supply chain considering freight insurance and consumer disappointment aversion," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 195(C).
- Lin, Jiaxin & Choi, Tsan-Ming & Kuo, Yong-Hong, 2023. "Will providing return-freight-insurances do more good than harm to dual-channel e-commerce retailers?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(3), pages 1225-1239.
- Yang, Hui & Chen, Jing & Chen, Xu & Chen, Bintong, 2017. "The impact of customer returns in a supply chain with a common retailer," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 256(1), pages 139-150.
- He, Shan & Dai, Ying & Ma, Zu-Jun, 2023. "To offer or not to offer? The optimal value-insured strategy for crowdsourced delivery platforms," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
- Ren, Minglun & Liu, Jiqiong & Feng, Shuai & Yang, Aifeng, 2021. "Pricing and return strategy of online retailers based on return insurance," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
- Jin, Delong & Caliskan-Demirag, Ozgun & Chen, Frank (Youhua) & Huang, Min, 2020. "Omnichannel retailers’ return policy strategies in the presence of competition," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 225(C).
- Necati Ertekin & Jeffrey D. Shulman & Haipeng (Allan) Chen, 2019. "On the Profitability of Stacked Discounts: Identifying Revenue and Cost Effects of Discount Framing," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 38(2), pages 317-342, March.
- Marriott, Joshua & Bektaş, Tolga & Leung, Erik Ka Ho & Lyons, Andrew, 2025. "The billion-pound question in fashion E-commerce: Investigating the anatomy of returns," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 194(C).
- Wang, Chong & Chen, Jing & Chen, Xu, 2017. "Pricing and order decisions with option contracts in the presence of customer returns," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 193(C), pages 422-436.
- Ka Chun Cheung & Sheung Chi Phillip Yam & Fei Lung Yuen & Yiying Zhang, 2025. "Optimal design of reinsurance contracts under adverse selection with a continuum of types," Papers 2504.17468, arXiv.org.
- Liu, Xingfen & Zhou, Zhongbao & Zhong, Feimin & Hu, Minhui, 2024. "Resolving the information reliability issue in live streaming through blockchain adoption," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
- Eruguz, Ayse Sena & Karabağ, Oktay & Tetteroo, Eline & van Heijst, Carl & van den Heuvel, Wilco & Dekker, Rommert, 2024. "Customer-to-customer returns logistics: Can it mitigate the negative impact of online returns?," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
- Chong Zhang & Man Yu & Jian Chen, 2022. "Signaling Quality with Return Insurance: Theory and Empirical Evidence," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(8), pages 5847-5867, August.
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:13:y:2025:i:11:p:1855-:d:1670409. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.