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Can Bundled Discounting Increase Consumer Prices Without Excluding Rivals? A Comment on 'Tying, Bundled Discounts, and the Death of the Single Monopoly Profit' by Einer Elhauge
Crane, Daniel A. - 2010
discounting schemes lower prices to consumers unless they are predatory - that is to say, unless they exclude rivals and thereby … permit the bundled discounter to price free of competitive restraint. Professor Elhauge argues that bundled discounting can … as that cost/revenue tests for bundled discounting perversely immunize the worst bundled discounting schemes - those that …
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False Negatives under a Discount Attribution Test for Bundled Discounts
Pollina, Bradley - 2014
Consumers love to pay less and get more. But are better deals at the retail point of sale always welfare-enhancing? This question points to the puzzle of bundling and bundled discounts. The antitrust concerns raised by a recent set of agreements in the telecommunications sector, allowing for the...
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Bundled Discounts, Loyalty Discounts and Antitrust Policy
Blair, Roger D.; Knight, Thomas - 2021
In this paper, we explore the competitive significance of both bundled and loyalty discounts. The paper proceeds as follows. In Section II, we examine the antitrust treatment of both bundled discounts and loyalty discounts in the United States. In Section III, we examine bundled discounts and...
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The Competitive Effects of Bundled Discounts
Leonard, Gregory K. - 2010
analyses should control.” This chapter explains the economic principles behind bundled rebate programs. It also describes the …
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Market structure and advance selling
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
When products are sold in advance, i.e. prior to consumption, consumers trade off an early, uninformed purchase at a low price against a late, informed purchase at a high price. This paper considers the effect of market structure on the prevalence of advance selling. We show that in an...
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On the benefits of being alone : scheduling changes, intensity of competition and dynamic airline pricing
Kerkemezos, Yannis; Karreman, Bas - 2020
We empirically test the hypothesis that the discounts offered by firms to consumers who purchase tickets in advance increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer...
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Tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates
Economides, Nicholas - 2012
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Tying, Bundling, and Loyalty/Requirement Rebates
Economides, Nicholas - 2011
show that the Chicago School Theory of a single monopoly surplus that justifies tying, bundling, and loyalty …
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Loyalty discounts
Akgun, Ugur; Chioveanu, Ioana - 2011
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Discounting, beyond utilitarianism
Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - 2014
Discounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey equation prevail in the debate on the discount rate on consumption. The utility discount rate is assumed to be constant and to reflect either the uncertainty about the existence of future generations or a pure preference for the present. The authors...
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