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Quality Differentiation in Durable Goods Monopoly Always Yields Strictly Positive Profits

Laussel, Didier; Van Long, Ngo - 2021

-quality menus to segment the market. We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly …

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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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Dynamic Monopoly and Consumers Profiling Accuracy

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

discrimination will improve monopoly profit if and only if information precision is higher than a certain threshold level. This U … monopoly’s investment in information accuracy. However, this cost should not dissuade firms to collect some information on …

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Profit Effects of Consumers' Identity Management: A Dynamic Model

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

We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently … monopoly equilibrium profit is globally an increasing function of the privacy cost while in the PHI case, it is almost always a …

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