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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

greater retail competition. These eﬀects mitigate distortions from fee discrimination and improve welfare. In terms of policy …

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Competitive imperfect price discrimination and market power

Belleflamme, Paul; Lam, Wing Man Wynne; Vergote, Wouter - 2019 - This version: November 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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Differential prize taxation and structural discrimination in contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

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Does reference pricing drive out generic competition in pharmaceutical markets? : evidence from a policy reform

Brekke, Kurt R.; Canta, Chiara; Straume, Odd Rune - 2022

more agressive, which triggers price competition and potentially deters entry by generic producers. To investigate the … branded and generic drug prices and branded market shares. Despite fiercer price competition, the number of generic producers …

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Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination

Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2016

We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a model with two firms that may be able to discriminate between two consumer groups. Two cases are analyzed: (i) Best-response symmetries so that profits in the static Nash...

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Exclusive data, price manipulation and market leadership

Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019

lists of consumers, exclusive data availability intensifies market competition. …

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Behavioral constraints on pricing : experimental evidence on price discrimination and customer antagonism

Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2016

In this study, we investigate behavioral constraints on pricing by using a novel laboratory experiment in which actual consumption goods are traded. We test different models and provide several insights into pricing and reactions to price discrimination. First, we identify the extent to which...

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Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited

Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

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Incentives through inventory control in supply chains

Zhan, Qu; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2017

The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it … because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise when retailers have to allocate inventory across sales periods, and …

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Pay what you want as a marketing strategy in monopolistic and competitive markets

Schmidt, Klaus; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - 2014

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

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