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 …

voluntarily under PWYW. Furthermore, to see how competition affects the viability of PWYW, we implement markets in which a PWYW …

integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show that if competition policy requires uniform … competition policy may not be optimal for consumer welfare. …

— anonymity, opt in, and opt out — within a two-period model of localized competition. We show that when consumers find it too …

Competition authorities and regulatory agencies sometimes impose pricing restrictions on firms with substantial market …-prices-to-sheltered-consumers” decreases prices in the sheltered segment, relaxes competition in the competitive segment, increases the rival’s profits, and … segment, lowers the rival’s profits, and augments the consumer surplus. In particular, while second-period competition is …