Lead Offer Spillovers

Matthew McGranaghan (), Jura Liaukonyte (), Geoffrey Fisher () and Kenneth C. Wilbur ()
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Matthew McGranaghan: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
Jura Liaukonyte: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
Geoffrey Fisher: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850
Kenneth C. Wilbur: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093

Marketing Science, 2019, vol. 38, issue 4, 643-668

Abstract: Price promotions are typically offered in groups on websites, mailings, and circulars, but little is known about how promotional offers in near proximity affect each other. Across two large-scale field experiments ( N = 66,184) conducted on a multibrand coupon website, we find that when lead promotions offer high-value deals, consumers are more likely to print subsequent offers, a finding we call “lead offer spillover.” In the first field experiment, doubling the value of three lead offers increased the printing of subsequent offers by 18% and redemptions by 12%. In the second, doubling the value of a single lead offer increased subsequent offer prints by 12%. Additional analyses and experiments indicate that larger lead offers increase consumer search for subsequent offers and are not primarily driven by changes in evaluative judgments or complementarities between lead and subsequent offers.

Keywords: price promotions; consumer search; attention; spillovers; field experiments; laboratory experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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