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Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Oligopoly When Markets are Covered

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

We analyze oligopolistic third-degree price discrimination relative to uniform pricing when markets are always covered. Pricing equilibria are critically determined by supply-side features such as the number of firms and their marginal cost differences. It follows that each firm’s Lerner index...

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Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power

Belleflamme, Paul - 2019

Two duopolists compete in price on the market for a homogeneous product. They can 'profile' consumers, i.e., identify their valuations with some probability. If both firms can profile consumers but with different abilities, then they achieve positive expected profits at equilibrium. This...

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Tax Evasion and Competition

Goerke, Laszlo; Runkel, Marco - 2021

Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that … more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be … weakly concave or convex and inelastic. The desirable result of more competition, less evasion and higher tax revenues will …

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When Nudges Fail to Scale : Field Experimental Evidence from Goal Setting on Mobile Phones

Löschel, Andreas - 2020

Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...

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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality is High : The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa

Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...

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Asymmetric Information and Differentiated Durable Goods Monopoly : Intra-Period Versus Intertemporal Price Discrimination

Laussel, Didier; Van Long, Ngo; Resende, Joana - 2021

A durable good monopolist faces a continuum of heterogeneous customers who make purchase decisions by comparing present and expected price-quality offers. The monopolist designs a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We consider the Markov Perfect Equilibrium (MPE) of a game...

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Integrated Versus Segmented Markets : Implications for Export Pricing and Welfare

Becker, Raphael; Nigai, Sergey; Seidel, Tobias - 2021

This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and pricing decisions of firms in integrated vs. segmented markets, we develop a novel tractable approach based on stochastic export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and...

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Personalized Pricing with Imperfect Customer Recognition

Colombo, Stefano; Graziano, Clara; Pignataro, Aldo - 2023

We consider a duopoly model where firms can identify only a share of consumers, which is positively correlated with the consumer’ preferences. Firms charge personalized prices to the consumers they can recognize and a uniform price to the rest of consumers. The firms’ available information...

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Welfare-Enhancing Taxation and Price Discrimination

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2022

We analyze the effects of commodity taxation in markets where suppliers implement second-degree price discrimination schemes, such as offering different package sizes and quality-differentiated versions of the same product. In these markets, suppliers distort the quantity (or quality) intended...

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History-Based Price Discrimination with Imperfect Information Accuracy and Asymmetric Market Shares

Colombo, Stefano; Graziano, Clara; Pignataro, Aldo - 2021

The paper considers a duopoly model in which firms inherited asymmetric market shares and history-based price discrimination is viable. However, firms can identify only a share of their own consumers depending to the degree of information accuracy. We derive the pricing strategies and we analyze...

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