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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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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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Soda Tax Incidence and Design Under Monopoly
Cremer, Helmuth - 2019
solution. Then we consider a monopoly. Market power affects both output and sugar content, possibly in opposite directions, and …
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Fare Evasion and Monopoly Regulation
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolas; Guzmán, León - 2022
We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly …
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Platform intermediation in a market for differentiated products
Galeotti, Andrea; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2008
that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the …
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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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Profit Effects of Consumers’ Identity Management : A Dynamic Model
Laussel, Didier; Van Long, Ngo; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213778
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Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Two-Sided Markets
de Cornière, Alexandre; Mantovani, Andrea; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023
We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogenous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on...
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Common Ownership of Competing Firms: Evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration. Among firms where we can identify at least one owner, 31...
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