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Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power
Belleflamme, Paul; Lam, Wing Man Wynne; Vergote, Wouter - 2019
policy requiring list prices to be public). Otherwise, more protective privacy regulations have ambiguous effects on consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179763
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Data brokers co-opetition
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018214
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Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power
Belleflamme, Paul - 2019
policy requiring list prices to be public). Otherwise, more protective privacy regulations have ambiguous effects on consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858202
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A Note on Moral Licensing and Foot-In-The-Door Effect
Ulph, Alistair; Panzone, Luca; Hilton, Denis - 2019
Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their past actions. Such inconsistencies appear to violate economists' assumption of rational consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141058
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A Note on Moral Licensing and Foot-in-The-Door Effect
Ulph, Alistair - 2019
Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are consistent or inconsistent with their past actions. Such inconsistencies appear to violate economists' assumption of rational consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861419
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Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation and Market Leadership
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms’ strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141054
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Data Brokers Co-Opetition
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891572
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Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation and Market Leadership
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms' strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861421
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International Protection of Consumer Data
Chen, Yongmin; Hua, Xinyu; Maskus, Keith E. - 2020
) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference differs across countries. Unilateral data regulation by each country addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269461
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Opt in versus opt out: a free-entry analysis of privacy policies
Bouckaert, Jan; Degryse, Hans - 2006
There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy … laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy anonymity … opt in or opt out, privacy policies shape firms' ability to collect and use customer information, and affect their pricing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264004