This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …

stockpiling induced by storability and durability. We accommodate competition across tied good systems and competing downstream …

retail competition is strong enough to prevent such distortions, we explore the commonly noted example of razors and blades … as well as time. This modeling feature enables a novel approach to measuring retail competition in single category demand …

We study the role of store-format choices in dynamic competition between two major chains in the U.S. discount …

the manner in which these infomediaries affect the market competition between retailers. In this paper, we analyze the … response by the competitor is to price aggressively in order to protect its loyal base and this intensifies price competition … Bertrand type competition for these consumers. Interestingly, we find that the referral service can unravel (in the sense that …

suburban consumers can hurt the firm that serves only city consumers. The tradeoffs among interfirm competition, market …

We propose a framework for analyzing spatial competition between retailers of different formats. Our approach yields … conventional wisdom, we find substantial cross-format competition between supercenters, club stores, and traditional grocers. Our …